Gigabyte I-ram drive

CDsDontBurn · Jan 9, 2006, 06:45 AM

some of you may have heard of this already. some of you may have already played around with this already. but for those of you who do not know anything about it, here's the deal. the gigabyte i-ram is basically a pci device that can have upto 4Gb of memory installed on it. it acts as a hard drive and interfaces with the motherboard through a SATA controller. you can place these in RAID 0 mode to have a total of 8Gb of data storage, but then you're talking big bucks. power is channelled (sp?) through the pci bus, and if it is disconnected from the pci bus (for system maintenance or whatever the reason may be), it has a battery on the card that can last upto 24hrs. according to my sources within the company i work for. and last but not least, below is a link to a video made by one of the product engineering guys at the company i work for, so you guys can see this little puppy in action

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...abyte+i-ram%22

Lowfat · Jan 9, 2006, 06:55 AM

holy crap. I've heard that they weren't that good. but wow, that was uberfast... I might buy one afterall.

ReDGuiTaR · Jan 9, 2006, 07:21 AM

Windows installed and running on ram ! sure it is fast but not very reliable ...

but hey, if you are fortunate enough to buy it with 4 1gig stick then go ! Im curious to see how it would perform for gaming, take a ressource hog game like BF2 and install it directly on the i-ram ....humm should fly !

Lowfat · Jan 9, 2006, 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by ReDGuiTaR

Windows installed and running on ram ! sure it is fast but not very reliable ...

but hey, if you are fortunate enough to buy it with 4 1gig stick then go ! Im curious to see how it would perform for gaming, take a ressource hog game like BF2 and install it directly on the i-ram ....humm should fly !

its only 4GB max though. Won't be able to likely install BF2 as well as the OS on it. OS and pagefile that is about it.

ReDGuiTaR · Jan 9, 2006, 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Lowfat

its only 4GB max though. Won't be able to likely install BF2 as well as the OS on it. OS and pagefile that is about it.

nono ... only BF2, let the OS on the HD .

CDsDontBurn · Jan 9, 2006, 12:14 PM

see guys. that's why you would have to have two of those puppies, and a total of 8Gb of RAM. Then you'd be able to stripe them

. You'd have a total of 8Gb of HDD capacity

. Now, i wonder if you can put those in quad RAID 0 (what's that called again???). then you'd have a total of one 16Gb HDD. You'd be able to install windows, BF2, and maybe one other smaller game.

only down fall after all that, is that you'd be out close to $1,000 (USD)

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Razgriz · Jan 9, 2006, 02:37 PM

eyebrows raise ^^

thats incredible

OldBuzzard · Jan 9, 2006, 03:39 PM

There is also HyperDrive III with up to 16Gig.

http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/

Lowfat · Jan 9, 2006, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by OldBuzzard

There is also HyperDrive III with up to 16Gig.

http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/

That is like $700US or something... what a waste.

CDsDontBurn · Jan 10, 2006, 12:06 AM

i'll check out that hyper drive thing when i get home from work. the connection here at work is too slow for me to do much of anything.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Jan 10, 2006, 07:09 AM

wow... some one give me a few thosand $$$ ??? LOL

OldBuzzard · Jan 10, 2006, 02:11 PM

Yeah, the HyperDrive costs more, but you would have to get 4 I-Rams to get the same amount of memory available and then it kinda evens out.

Either way, it's not cheap, but then leading edge technology never is.

CDsDontBurn · Jan 11, 2006, 05:46 AM

wow!!! that hyperdrive thing is incredibly m ore amazing! lol. can use more memory modules, and NOT take up a PCI slot

.

Now, does it come in black?

Jan 9, 2006, 06:45 AM	#1
CDsDontBurn Lurking DriverHeaven Join Date: May 2003 Location: Southern California Posts: 22,779 Rep Power: 235 System Specs	Gigabyte I-ram drive some of you may have heard of this already. some of you may have already played around with this already. but for those of you who do not know anything about it, here's the deal. the gigabyte i-ram is basically a pci device that can have upto 4Gb of memory installed on it. it acts as a hard drive and interfaces with the motherboard through a SATA controller. you can place these in RAID 0 mode to have a total of 8Gb of data storage, but then you're talking big bucks. power is channelled (sp?) through the pci bus, and if it is disconnected from the pci bus (for system maintenance or whatever the reason may be), it has a battery on the card that can last upto 24hrs. according to my sources within the company i work for. and last but not least, below is a link to a video made by one of the product engineering guys at the company i work for, so you guys can see this little puppy in action . http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...abyte+i-ram%22 __________________ Her First Day \| A year later

Jan 9, 2006, 06:55 AM	#2
Lowfat Xtreme Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Grande Prairie, AB, Can Posts: 4,254 Rep Power: 101	holy crap. I've heard that they weren't that good. but wow, that was uberfast... I might buy one afterall. __________________

Jan 9, 2006, 07:21 AM	#3
ReDGuiTaR DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Quebec , Canada Posts: 746 Rep Power: 0	Windows installed and running on ram ! sure it is fast but not very reliable ... but hey, if you are fortunate enough to buy it with 4 1gig stick then go ! Im curious to see how it would perform for gaming, take a ressource hog game like BF2 and install it directly on the i-ram ....humm should fly ! __________________ Zing a ling... zing a ling a ling ... A8N-E - A64x2 4600, 2048 Mb Kingston ram 400mhz cas 2.5 ( 2 x 1024 DualChannel ), Seagate 320 Gig 7200 16Mb cache S-ata 2, GeForce 7900GT 512MB, Enermax 460watt power supply, WindowsXP SP2. Last edited by ReDGuiTaR; Jan 9, 2006 at 07:35 AM.

Jan 9, 2006, 12:14 PM	Thread Starter #6
CDsDontBurn Lurking DriverHeaven Join Date: May 2003 Location: Southern California Posts: 22,779 Rep Power: 235 System Specs	see guys. that's why you would have to have two of those puppies, and a total of 8Gb of RAM. Then you'd be able to stripe them . You'd have a total of 8Gb of HDD capacity . Now, i wonder if you can put those in quad RAID 0 (what's that called again???). then you'd have a total of one 16Gb HDD. You'd be able to install windows, BF2, and maybe one other smaller game. only down fall after all that, is that you'd be out close to $1,000 (USD) . __________________ Her First Day \| A year later

Jan 9, 2006, 03:39 PM	#8
OldBuzzard DH's oldest Geek Join Date: May 2003 Location: Oberlin, OH Posts: 2,783 Rep Power: 145 System Specs	There is also HyperDrive III with up to 16Gig. http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/ __________________ When looking for a reason as to why things go wrong, never rule out sheer STUPIDITY

Jan 9, 2006, 02:37 PM	#7
Razgriz Intelligence? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: On the edge of insanity Posts: 1,183 Rep Power: 55	eyebrows raise ^^ thats incredible

Jan 10, 2006, 12:06 AM	Thread Starter #10
CDsDontBurn Lurking DriverHeaven Join Date: May 2003 Location: Southern California Posts: 22,779 Rep Power: 235 System Specs	i'll check out that hyper drive thing when i get home from work. the connection here at work is too slow for me to do much of anything. __________________ Her First Day \| A year later

Jan 10, 2006, 07:09 AM	#11
The_Neon_Cowboy HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 16,009 Rep Power: 92 System Specs	wow... some one give me a few thosand $$$ ??? LOL __________________

Jan 10, 2006, 02:11 PM	#12
OldBuzzard DH's oldest Geek Join Date: May 2003 Location: Oberlin, OH Posts: 2,783 Rep Power: 145 System Specs	Yeah, the HyperDrive costs more, but you would have to get 4 I-Rams to get the same amount of memory available and then it kinda evens out. Either way, it's not cheap, but then leading edge technology never is. __________________ When looking for a reason as to why things go wrong, never rule out sheer STUPIDITY

Jan 11, 2006, 05:46 AM	Thread Starter #13
CDsDontBurn Lurking DriverHeaven Join Date: May 2003 Location: Southern California Posts: 22,779 Rep Power: 235 System Specs	wow!!! that hyperdrive thing is incredibly m ore amazing! lol. can use more memory modules, and NOT take up a PCI slot . Now, does it come in black? __________________ Her First Day \| A year later