HDD Upgrade Time: Acard ANS-9010 vs Gigabyte I-RAM vs SSD

Storage/SSD by massman @ 2009-04-13

As an alternative to the slow platter-based hard drives there already a few ram disk-based solutions on the market. Acard recently designed their ram disk product, which allows users to use DDR2 memory as storage method. Today, we have a look at the performance of the Acard ANS-9010 and compare it with normal hard disk drives, SSD technology and other ram disks.

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For the overclockers and benchmarkers this is very interesting. An Acard Raid0 configuration is more powerful than 3x iRam in Raid0, which means that it's not necessary anymore to have a second rig running next to your overclocking system to power all iRams (via PCI).

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The OCZ SSD is quite a lot faster than a normal hard disk drive, but is overpowered by any ramdisk configuration.

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It seems that the DDR2 of the Acard ANS-9010 is giving a nice boost over the DDR1 on the iRam.

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Again, DDR2 seems to be better. Note that 3xiRam is in this subtest faster than a dual slot Raid0 Acard configuration.

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The biggest gain from switching to Raid0 is located in this subtest. Note that the Western Digital isn't that far behind the OCZ SSD.

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3x iRam wins this round, DDR2 is again better than DDR1 and the plattered Western Digital is not too far behind the SSD.
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Comment from Bosw8er @ 2009/04/15
Been a while since i read an entire article.
hattip to you!

Don't know if it's still possible, but including a small vid might be more .. euh ... illustrative (opposed to graphs)

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Comment from jmke @ 2009/04/15
like this you mean? http://www.madshrimps.be/gotoartik.php?articID=923
Comment from Bosw8er @ 2009/04/15
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top!
missed that because of hollidays
Comment from jmke @ 2009/04/15
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missed that because of hollidays
shame on you!
Comment from Diegis0n @ 2009/04/20
Grreat review! I just love what the Acard can do

Vertex vs hdd is amazing we've all known for long that hdd is a serious bottleneck and this illustration is just makes me want to order 1
Comment from leeghoofd @ 2009/04/21
I can lend you my Vertex mate if you wish ( 60Gb ) will arrive this week
Comment from Diegis0n @ 2009/04/21
talking to me?
Comment from leeghoofd @ 2009/04/21
ze one and only

Ik heb weinig tijd nu om te benchen : I7 roundup afwerken, volgende week heel de week weg met het werk, dan Lanparty met Blindje, dus ik kan ze wel even missen.
Comment from Diegis0n @ 2009/04/21
Ik zou ze pas na mijn examens kunnen "benutten" wat 05/05 wordt dus juist na de lan als je er dan nog geen tijd voor hebt, i'd love to
Comment from jmke @ 2009/05/09
Windows 7 on the ACARD


only downside... can only have 1 game/app installed at a time; this is Win7 and Crysis 1.2 installed; no hibernation file, page file 200mb. Disk is made up of 8x2Gb sticks (€160)



you read that right
1.78Mb free

 

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