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Gigabyte I-Ram gets competition

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I never heard of Denver, Colorado based DDRdrive LLC. before, but they are part of PCI-SIG which means to me that they are a professional company with a solid engineering background. Their domain has been registered in January 2005, so not a complete newcomer either.

The DDRdrive is a solid-state HDD based on DDR memory. Unlike regular HDDs it has no moving parts and can be made VERY fast. Unlike flash memory it offers high transfer rates.



This is the only picture of a prototype, there is no further information available, I emailed DDRdrive and asked a lot of questions. What we can conlude from the picture is that the DDRdrive will have a PCI-E x1 interface (2.5Gbit/s), four DDR memory slots and requires an external power supply.

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Gigabyte's already working on a next gen version that will have eight DDR2 dimm slots, SATA 2 ready, external power supply/battery back up.

Not sure of which type of expasion slot it will use...

Should make all drive speed standards obsolete.
 
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These look cool. .but could you explain what they do :eek:

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AceFactor said:
These look cool. .but could you explain what they do :eek:

-Adam

The gigabyte, I guess, is like a hard drive. Used to store data, but since ram is volatile, keeping the data on there is a bit harder, so I could see this as being one hell of a swap drive... :D
 

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aahh. .i think i understand now, thnx :p

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Dippyskoodlez said:
The gigabyte, I guess, is like a hard drive. Used to store data, but since ram is volatile, keeping the data on there is a bit harder, so I could see this as being one hell of a swap drive... :D

That's what the dedicated external PSU and Battery backup is for. Plus, they come with backup software so whatever you have on it can be backed up to standard HDD daily.

Using one of these as your OS/Program drive results in 5 sec Windows boot times and read/write times that are limited by the 3.0 GBps speed of the SATA2 connection. I've used their first gen version and they are incredible...
 

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5 Sec boot time sounds interesting :toast:

-Adam
 
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