SSD and i-RAM vs Traditional Hard Disk Drives

@ 2008/04/28
In this article we are going to introduce to you two solid state drives from Samsung and a unique data storage solution from Gigabyte aka i-RAM. Let check out their performance compared to that of conventional hard disk drives.

Comment from Kougar @ 2008/05/05
Let me put it this way: The microcontroller in a high-end SSD is often the limiting component that bottlenecks performance.

So, since RAM is MUCH faster than flash memory... it stands to reason the hardware microcontroller in the i-RAM is the biggest bottleneck. RAM should perform leaps and bounds better... a modern, performance tweaked microcontroller on the drive/iRAM PCB should give it a huge boost alone, before adding SATA II improvements and faster, higher bandwidth lower power DDR2 RAM.
Comment from jakebot @ 2008/05/05
that was def. over my head kougar.
Comment from Kougar @ 2008/04/29
Hm, Velociraptor costs $300... same price would give 20GB of DDR2.

I would suspect that a new and improved (IE current) drive microcontroller + SATA II interface + DDR2 would greatly improve the RAM drives's performance. Plenty of room for more memory if adding a low RPM fan.
Comment from jakebot @ 2008/04/28
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Originally Posted by Rutar View Post
You end up in a price realm of SSD HDs too fast. When I-Ram launched, it was interesting for a few users but now it simply is not competitive with SSDs.

I can only point at the fast 64 Gb OCZ SSD Disk that goes for only 1000$ at Newegg. That fits even an XP install and most WORK porgrams.
i agree rutar... i have a 36.7gig raptor and it's a little on the small side for all my game installs and what not... but 64 gig's would be quite nice. anything smaller and it's just not enough. especially with these darn near 10 gig games these days

jmke... if they could do that and make a slot on a motherboard that's actually designed for that it would be great... however i won't have jack for pci slots after i get sli since i already ahve a soundcard.
Comment from jmke @ 2008/04/28
Aim for 8Gb of RAM disk which boots your PC instantly, good tradeof with cost
Comment from Rutar @ 2008/04/28
I can only see very expensive 4 GB modules, 4 GB (2x2) costs 63$ so that would still make 1008$ for 64 GB DDR2.
Comment from jmke @ 2008/04/28
what would you pay for a RAM disks which uses PCI Express ?
Comment from Rutar @ 2008/04/28
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Originally Posted by jmke View Post
I bet you are completely incorrect

anyway, we what we should hope for is I-RAM device with DDR2 support, 4 slots, up to 8gb/slot
You end up in a price realm of SSD HDs too fast. When I-Ram launched, it was interesting for a few users but now it simply is not competitive with SSDs.

I can only point at the fast 64 Gb OCZ SSD Disk that goes for only 1000$ at Newegg. That fits even an XP install and most WORK porgrams.
Comment from jmke @ 2008/04/28
I bet you are completely incorrect

anyway, we what we should hope for is I-RAM device with DDR2 support, 4 slots, up to 8gb/slot
Comment from Rutar @ 2008/04/28
I bet that article is paid by Seagate, considering they took the crappy Samsung SSDs.

 

 

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