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Sunday, July 13, 2008

More details on ACARD-9010

ACARD RAM disk comes in two models: ANS-9010 (eight DDR2 slots) and ANS-9010B (six DDR slots). Both models come with a CF slot and battery that "enough to finish the backup". I'm guessing it is not sufficient to retain data up to 10 hours like in Gigabyte i-RAM. However with my i-RAM battery died after only 10 months, I better assume the data dies when power outage.

In ANS-9010 model, it states upto 400MB/sec transfer rate. Since SATA2 support up to 300MB/sec, ACARD uses two SATA2 ports in RAID to achieve 400MB/sec (I'm just guessing here.)

Overall, it is better alternative to Gigabyte i-RAM Box which only have four DDR slots (DDR2 is cheaper and power efficient than DDR) and HyperDrive which has eight more expensive registered ECC memory slots.

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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Another i-RAM like SSD from A-DATA

From tweaktown:

Steven also went on to mention that A-DATA will later this year be releasing a product which is similar to GIGABYTE’s I-RAM ram disk drive. While details are slim at this stage, it will support DDR2 memory (as low as DDR2-400 will work) and it will mount into an optical drive bay at the front of your case. We haven’t got many details on this yet except for the fact that it will house up to eight modules and is designed purely for gamers who cannot afford a regular SSD. With low-end DDR2 being so cheap at the moment, this solution may take off and sell like hot cakes.

I hope it supports 2GB DDR2 memory module. 16GB that I can use.

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

RAM based SSD on Computex 2008

Pic from chinese.engadget.com

I was surprised to see RAM based SSD from ACARD when I stumbled on Engadget China blog. I was pretty sure ACARD 9011 was in deadpool. Now it supports 32GB/16GB and using regular DDR2 memory, not SO-DIMM. I don't expect to see this anytime soon. Gigabyte i-RAM2 promised the similar thing before but never delivered.

Gigabyte GO-RAMDiSK (aka i-RAM2) is there too. Probably still 4GB max and using DDR 1 memory. Note that price for 1GB DDR 400 is around $30~$40 while 2GB DDR2 is around the same. Also DDR2 memory requires less power.

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i-RAM RAID videos

Windows booting on HyperDrive4

HdTune benchmark of 4x Gigabyte i-RAM RAID

Here is another 4x Gigabyte i-RAM RAID setup

And here is 8x Gigabyte i-RAM RAID setup (886MB/sec)

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Gigabyte i-RAM Box

I thought Gigabyte i-RAM Box was vaporware. It was announced few years ago, then delay, delay, and delay. Even its spec was reduced to the half good as original. No improvement over older PCI based i-RAM but only the form factor change.

But I guess they are officially shipping the product now. I've found a i-RAM Box on eBay before but I thought that the i-RAM Box produced was canceled and selling and selling what they already made on eBay.

I've finally found the product information on Gigabyte websites. No surprise, no improvement on the spec.

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