Peter, 50GB is a lot of RAM but not much for a hard drive. I'm currently using 500GB firewire 800 (faster than firewire 400) external drives and find them as fast as internal drives. I don't have actual transfer rate comparisons but if you can afford it, RAM would definitely be the best. As a rough price comparison I believe RAM is running roughly $300/GB while the firewire 800 drives are less than $2/GB. Cached RAID internal drives are probably in the same ballpark as the firewire drives, the only disadvantage being that they are not portable, which may not be a concern for you. I have used 9GB (4.7GB on each side) RAM disks and they are much slower than the firewire drives.
I know this reply is rough but if you'd like more info I'll be glad to supply it. Thanks, Earl -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Voss Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [agi] SOTA 50 GB memory for Windows What are the best options for large amounts of fast memory for Windows-based systems? I'm looking for price & performance (access time) for: 1) Cached RAID 2) RAM disks 3) Internal RAM (using 64 bit architecture?) 4) other Thanks for any info. Peter --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.740 / Virus Database: 494 - Release Date: 8/16/2004 ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
