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oggmonster

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i-RAM
« on: June 30, 2009, 01:37:53 pm »
Guys what happened to i-ram? Has it faded? Any plans to bring it back?
« Last Edit: July 30, 2009, 08:40:10 am by runn3R »
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Whitehot

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Re: i-RAM
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2009, 02:58:23 pm »
I heard that it didn't take off.  Last time I spoke to Gigabyte about it they still had the DDR version and the DDR2 model was put on hold until they cleared.

shame, nice idea.

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Re: i-RAM
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2009, 03:00:53 pm »
yeah brillaint idea, would be good if they brought it back especially with SATA V3.0. From the benchmarks ive seen, its actually faster than raided raptors!  :o
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Whitehot

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Re: i-RAM
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2009, 03:05:02 pm »
HOLY MOLY!

what happens when you pull the power though?  Does it loose everything?

oggmonster

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« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2009, 03:07:03 pm »
Don't quote me on the raided raptor thing! It was just some benchmarks I saw...I can't seem to find the page I saw them on now... :(

But no to answer your question you don't loose everything it has a small battery onboard :D
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« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2009, 03:09:00 pm »
Ohh I found what i was looking at, they didn't test it with raided raptors, but it was still faster than a 4x raid0 caviar configuration  :o

http://techreport.com/articles.x/9312/1

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Re: i-RAM
« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2009, 03:56:25 pm »
wah!!  That is impressive, the only thing that beat it was the RAID set up.  Can you imagine four I-RAM's in a RAID array??

I don't get it though, why aren't there more of these sort of things available?  And why didn't the I-RAM take off over here??  There must be some draw back that's been missed here?

oggmonster

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« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2009, 03:58:49 pm »
I'm guessing cost? And the introduction of SSDs (again pure guesswork)
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« Reply #8 on: July 04, 2009, 05:34:56 pm »
With SSD's out and the fact that the I-Ram is vunerable to loss of power its a niche market.

I seriously considered getting one but was waiting for a pci-e version that was rumoured. But then of course SSD's hit.

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Re: i-RAM
« Reply #9 on: July 07, 2009, 10:14:35 am »
I think raid setups are faster now, as they were limited by the bus to 150Mb/sec which SSDs can surpass now and also two hard drives in raid can match read/write speeds. Also the 4Gb limit is very small, not much room for stuff. Modern HD's fair better now as that review is 3 years old!
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Re: i-RAM
« Reply #10 on: July 07, 2009, 10:26:25 am »
I know, but it just seems like a good idea. If they could build a ddr2/3 version which used sata3.0. Wasn't limited to 4GB and could be RAIDed it would be blisteringly quick!
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Re: i-RAM
« Reply #11 on: July 21, 2009, 10:10:17 am »
Yeah, but I think SSD's sort of have this spot now and instead of an I-ram you need a Raid controller with 4-8SSd's. That would be amazing :O
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Re: i-RAM
« Reply #12 on: January 15, 2011, 08:04:46 pm »
Please gigabyte, bring back the i-ram :'(
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Re: i-RAM
« Reply #13 on: April 11, 2011, 01:09:32 am »
Well doubt they'll bother, see at the Revodrive x2 is out http://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/ocz_revodrive_x2_240gb_pcie_ssd_review,1.html

Which is seriously quick. Although "borrowing" the revodrive idea + improving on it would certainly be great for consumers :)
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Re: i-RAM
« Reply #14 on: April 11, 2011, 09:10:51 am »
Yes I agree there oggmonster! That I would like to see them bring out. ;D
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