[GENERAL] RAM Based Disk Drive?

2006-10-31 Thread Adam
I recently saw a Hard Disk Drive that is really 4GB of RAM with and SATA 1.5Gb/s serial interface. It's basically a hard disk drive that uses RAM. It also has a battery backup, so if you loose power, you don't loose your data. Has anyone tried using this, and if so was there a noticeable

Re: [GENERAL] RAM Based Disk Drive?

2006-10-31 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 10/31/06, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently saw a Hard Disk Drive that is really 4GB of RAM with and SATA 1.5Gb/s serial interface. It's basically a hard disk drive that uses RAM. It also has a battery backup, so if you loose power, you don't loose your data. Has anyone tried using

Re: [GENERAL] RAM Based Disk Drive?

2006-10-31 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 11:48, Merlin Moncure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you are talking about the gigabyte i-ram. in the database world, you can achieve same thing (actually better) by sticking those ram sticks directly on the motherboard assuming you are in a 64 bit environment and the

Re: [GENERAL] RAM Based Disk Drive?

2006-10-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/06 13:48, Merlin Moncure wrote: On 10/31/06, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently saw a Hard Disk Drive that is really 4GB of RAM with and SATA 1.5Gb/s serial interface. It's basically a hard disk drive that uses RAM. It also has

Re: [GENERAL] RAM Based Disk Drive?

2006-10-31 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 10/31/06, Alan Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 31 October 2006 11:48, Merlin Moncure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you are talking about the gigabyte i-ram. in the database world, you can achieve same thing (actually better) by sticking those ram sticks directly on the motherboard