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Title: i-RAM
Post by: oggmonster on June 30, 2009, 01:37:53 pm

Guys what happened to i-ram? Has it faded? Any plans to bring it back?

Title: Re: i-RAM
Post by: Whitehot 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.

Title: Re: i-RAM
Post by: oggmonster 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

Title: Re: i-RAM
Post by: Whitehot on June 30, 2009, 03:05:02 pm

HOLY MOLY!

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

Title: Re: i-RAM
Post by: oggmonster 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

Title: Re: i-RAM
Post by: oggmonster 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 (http://techreport.com/articles.x/9312/1)

Title: Re: i-RAM
Post by: Whitehot 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?

Title: Re: i-RAM
Post by: oggmonster on June 30, 2009, 03:58:49 pm

I'm guessing cost? And the introduction of SSDs (again pure guesswork)

Title: Re: i-RAM
Post by: mercyground 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.

Title: Re: i-RAM
Post by: Badbonji 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!

Title: Re: i-RAM
Post by: oggmonster 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!

Title: Re: i-RAM
Post by: Badbonji 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

Title: Re: i-RAM
Post by: Greed4Speed on January 15, 2011, 08:04:46 pm

Please gigabyte, bring back the i-ram :'(

Title: Re: i-RAM
Post by: oggmonster 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 (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 :)

Title: Re: i-RAM
Post by: Dark Mantis on April 11, 2011, 09:10:51 am

Yes I agree there oggmonster! That I would like to see them bring out. ;D