Super Talent Announces USB 3.0 DRAM Disk

[btarunr]

Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of NAND flash storage solutions, announces the USB 3.0 Express Dram Disk. With sequential read scores of up to 4041 MB/s and sequential write scores of up to 5388 MB/s, the USB 3.0 Express Dram Disk is a speed demon of a drive housed in a sleek aluminum casing. The USB 3.0 Express Dram Disk and its unique built-in software utilize your computer's available RAM to transfer files at an amazingly quick rate. Software is included.

This USB also transfers files while you are using the program, cutting down on wait time later. A productivity gem for creative professionals whose daily regime relies upon constantly moving files on-the-go-cutting their valued time in half.



The USB 3.0 Express Dram Disk is mobile--and its pre-installed software can be used with multiple computers at any given time. This feature allows you to transport your work with you and run large programs on other devices. It even further rewards users who have taken previous measures in upgrading their existing RAM available on their host system. This USB is a dream for creative professionals running large programs such as Adobe Photoshop, CAD, Maya, and more.

The USB 3.0 Express Dram Disk is as portable as a regular USB, giving the user the freedom to take their work anywhere. The USB 3.0 Express Dram Disk provides the power of increased productivity through its incredible speed abilities, which can be many times faster than a SSD.

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[Exceededgoku]

So elephant in the room... How much can this store?

And, is this cross platform.

For example, at work I use an iMac. Which has 16GB RAM.

My desktop system has 32GB RAM.

Does this impact the speed, or total storage available?

 

[Aquinus]

The USB 3.0 Express Dram Disk and its unique built-in software utilize your computer's available RAM to transfer files at an amazingly quick rate.

In reality, it's copying super fast to memory and is still going slow as a snail in the background. So people will copy files in "2 seconds" unplug the flash drive and wonder why their stuff isn't there because the device hadn't gotten around to copying everything over yet. Using system memory doesn't make the Flash or the bus any faster.

 

[xaira]

my thoughts exactly aquinus, the speed of the usb 3 bus is 5gb/s or about 500MB/s, its basically just caching everything to memory and writing it back later, this seems really dumb, for simple write and read, but lets say youre working on something on the flash drive using different pcs, if it caches the entire contents of the drive to ram once you plug in, and then you can work on it in ram, and then when you eject, it gives you a count down, then i can maybe understand, but just maybe

 

[Aquinus]

my thoughts exactly aquinus, the speed of the usb 3 bus is 5gb/s or about 500MB/s, its basically just caching everything to memory and writing it back later, this seems really dumb, for simple write and read, but lets say youre working on something on the flash drive using different pcs, if it caches the entire contents of the drive to ram once you plug in, and then you can work on it in ram, and then when you eject, it gives you a count down, then i can maybe understand, but just maybe

It's not only dumb, Windows already does this when you have write caching turned on.

 

[Parn]

Seems to me the marketing dept at Super Talent is trying to mislead the consumers. Bad move

 

[Uplink10]

This is only a buffer.

 

[Patriot]

I thought it had a write cache on the stick, then I saw it was 3.0 and not 3.1 ... and saw what they were doing.... what bollocks.