On Feb 4, 2010, at 3:20 PM, Ed Grey wrote:
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempohd.html
You attach an old laptop HD onto this card, then plug the card into a
pci slot. It also includes a ata/133 connector so you can plug in 2
large ata drives into it. Sonnet's price is $70.
No, I didn't mean a PCI card that needed a standard laptop hard drive
to be operational. I meant an SSD drive that comes on a PCI card,
rather than the usual SSD that plugs in like a hard drive.
So what you are looking for is a pci card that has ram built in.
These exist and are not for the faint of wallet. Think server/
enterprise grade pricing. Bruce can give you an idea. Mostly they are
used as a high speed cache in servers while info is waiting for the
hard drives to catch up.
Most of these have battery backup to store information in case of a
power failure. These use regular memory, not slower flash type ram
found in SSD drives. They are normally limited to existing memory
capacities.
Much faster than the flash memory in SSDs, but not very upgradable.
In addition, most are not bootable.
Using an SSDrive on a pci card gives you better options for day to
day use. For the cost of one of the above cards, you can get a huge
(relatively speaking) SSDrive. In addition, using an SSdrive gives
you an easier upgrade path and the ability to reasonably replace it
should there be a failure.
These are 1 pci slot cards, so having the flash memory directly
mounted on the card is more limiting than having an SSD that can be
replaced.
Len
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