So, if this was a boot drive, if I pressed the power button to turn the computer on, would your RAM drive load the info from the CF into the RAM and then boot the computer? How would that work?
So, if this was a boot drive, if I pressed the power button to turn the computer on, would your RAM drive load the info from the CF into the RAM and then boot the computer? How would that work?
welcome to xs and awesome to see ram drive @ ddr2 will be released
Thanks for the information you have posted
which voltage is supplied to the DIMMs, ddr2 jedec standard or?
thanks
How would it be always on though... drawing power from the 5vsb? How? I see no wires.
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In less than a year flash memory will meet and probably exceed even SATA-II bandwidth. Most OEMs will figure out how to parallelize flash like the FusionIO drive and flash-based SSDs will have completely overtaken the market, replacing mechanical hard drives in workstations and laptops.
Magnetic hard drives will be used exclusively for backups, just as tape is relegated to those duties now. You will probably see one, maybe 2 drives in RAID 1 included for backups in systems because people will have much greater expectations for data availability and reliabililty.
Call me Nostradumbus, but I see this only as a novelty solution. The inherent problems of using DRAM to store data with any kind of longevity are just too great and I doubt this device will solve that problem.
Benchmark queen? Check.
Interesting and fun to mess with? Check.
Useful and valuable? Fail.
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What are expected access times with onboard and external controllers?
Good thinking there. When you turn off your PC the backup mechanism will start, when you turn it back on, data will be fed from CF card.
Thank you I'll try my best to explain here.
DDR2 RAMs varies a bit on voltage base on, partly, DDR speed and CL timing.
Internal controller will synchronize the difference so all RAM onboard will operate as one. I hope I answer your question?
For ACARD RAM Disk, access time is too fast and the benchmark software cannot evaluate the speed since it enters ns (nanosecond?) access time instead of ms.
Users have different preferences and I respect everyone's opinion.
Like I said before, SSD has huge advantages in a lot of applications, but it also bares the drawback of write time and write cycle limitation.
I don't see why this cannot be solved with the advancement of technology.
As far as cost of SSD goes, it will become dramatically user friendly within a year or two, depending on how the giant players plan their marketing.
Back to RAM Disk, there is a fine line between DDR RAM Disk and SLC/MLC SSDs.
Info on SSD are everywhere online; so I will stop here and not to make myself appearing incompetent going into the technical.
There are a lot of RAM Disk applications, already deployed, in video editing, HD microscope video capturing, and enterprise grade solutions. RAM Disk is absolutely not perfect, but it does have great values.
What ACARD is trying to do is to introduce something different, an option for the user, with 9010 RAM Disk.
I think I just found what to use my other 4 SATA connectors on my ARC-1231ML for
I like it !!
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while DDR based SSDs arent used for super-long term storage, they still definitely used, & in a rather sizeable solution.. Sunayknits, ever heard of terra ramsan?
http://www.thinkcp.com/products/terraramsan.asp
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while DDR based SSDs arent used for super-long term storage, they still definitely used, & in a rather sizeable solution.. Sunayknits, ever heard of terra ramsan?
http://www.thinkcp.com/products/terraramsan.asp
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- Raptor 150GB x 2 (RAID 0)
- 2x 8800GTX 768MB 640/1040Mhz
- Core 2 Duo E6420 Conroe 2.13/3.00Ghz
- EK + Apogee GTX
- ASUS P5N32-E SLI Plus
- 4GB 1066 Mem
- Silverstone DA850
- 2x MCP350
- 2x Magicool Extreme Slim Profile Rads
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Last edited by m^2; 09-23-2008 at 09:15 AM.
I just had a great idea for Acard's new drive, and how I'm thinking about setting up my system. I'm thinking 1 RAM disk totally dedicated to OS and bare essentials like codecs and hotfixes. Then, a second "image" RAM drive. Then as big storage (here's where it gets good, I think anyway), 3x750GB (or whatever size you want) standard HDDs, that store ghost images of the second RAM drive. So what you do is boot into windows, install your game onto the 2nd image RAM drive, take a ghost image of it and stick it in the big storage. Write a simple .bat file and any time you want to play like CS, the image is transfered from the big storage to the image RAM drive and played from there. That way you don't have to worry about maxing out the storage on any of the RAM drives or having to pick and choose which games to keep installed on there, and while your initial "load" time would be slightly longer, it would definitely pay off while in game. Hmmm....
/beardstroke
my bet is that the acard solution is even better than expected when paired with a quality controller is used as opposed to the onboard stuff, as IOPs and latency is at its mercy at a certain point (barring of course your own dram controller isn't holding the performance back)
also
JasonACard my reply was for SunayKnits, more specifically clarifing that a solution similar to ACard's device is already in "mission critical" type use.
Lol those types of RAMSAN drives cost more than most peoples houses.
Hi Guys,
glad to see the conversation goes on
I was having hands-on testing with our units in the past few days and it's ready to go.
Soon we'll be seeing some reviews.
Are there any good review websites that you guys recommend?
Apart from here lol
Anandtech, toms hardware and hardocp are the ones I really like although many here will now spit on and deride me. I m looking forward to testing one myself if you'll sell me a sample
in addition to Anandtech, I like reading the reviews at hexus too, but for a drive i'd look at www.storagereview.com
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