Gigabyte Brings Solid State Storage to the Mainstream

[muchspl3]

In an effort to differentiate themselves from other motherboard manufacturers, Gigabyte has introduced a number of interesting add-ons for their motherboards, the most interesting of which is their $50 RAMDISK PCI card.


http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2431&p=5
very cool

[Darth Sushi]

I WANT ONE, NOW!!!http://www.mcbriens.net/liam/img/smilies/w00tblur.gif

[muchspl3]

no shit, the last product that was similar to this and compatible with most motherboards, rather than gigabyte specific motherboards cost at least $400

[clocker]

Gee, would that be the same Gigabyte whose motherboards I have recommending for the past few months?

Why yes indeed, it would be.

I must be psychic.

[S!X]

Gee, would that be the same Gigabyte whose motherboards I have recommending for the past few months?

Why yes indeed, it would be.

I must be psychic.

I'll be the one suffering with an abit :cry: LOL.

[muchspl3]

Gee, would that be the same Gigabyte whose motherboards I have recommending for the past few months?

Why yes indeed, it would be.

I must be psychic.
I haven't been in the market but thats cool you were ahead of the curve :cool2:

[Snee]

Too bad about the 16 hours limit. It sounds pretty awesome though.

I wonder if you could put your pagefiles on that :unsure:
That could be cool if you were using photoshop, which won't work for me without pagefiles, or if you had win2k installed for some reason.




Did you look at the next page? :blink: (http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2431&p=6)

[Virtualbody1234]

I wonder if you could put your pagefiles on that :unsure:

Forget about the pagefile... How about the whole OS installed on that! :ohmy:

[Livy]

I wonder if you could put your pagefiles on that :unsure:

Forget about the pagefile... How about the whole OS installed on that! :ohmy:

if you didnt use your pc for 16 hours though you would lose windows.
suppose you could probably hook up an external dc power source if needed.

[orcutt989]

What is the point of this? It would cost a grand to even get 10GBS of space... Why not just buy a SATA HD?

[Money Fist]

lol
16 hours just sucks

unless u can wire a car battery up to it :P

[Darth Sushi]

lol
16 hours just sucks

unless u can wire a car battery up to it :P
Well, my PC runs 24/7 so 16 hrs of battery life is not an issue for me.

[Virtualbody1234]

What is the point of this? It would cost a grand to even get 10GBS of space... Why not just buy a SATA HD?
Speed.
all accesses occur in nanoseconds, not milliseconds and is thus much faster at random accesses than regular hard drives.

You don't really need 10 GBs for the OS.

[orcutt989]

Speed.
all accesses occur in nanoseconds, not milliseconds and is thus much faster at random accesses than regular hard drives.

You don't really need 10 GBs for the OS.

Oh, so this memory is just for the OS? How would that increase performance?

[Virtualbody1234]

Speed.

You don't really need 10 GBs for the OS.

Oh, so this memory is just for the OS? How would that increase performance?
For one thing, the bootup time would be so fast. Less than 2 seconds.

[lynx]

I can't see the point of the opening line that says the card is just an add-on for Gigabyte motherboards. In fact it even says that no additional drivers are necessary.

But the limiting factor is the SATA interface, so access would not be as fast as you might think.

[clocker]

Step 1....Install RAM drive card w/ 1GB installed

Step2...create custom XP install using nLite (http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4324.html) (my first attempt yeilded a 950MB XP Pro, I'll be more ruthless next time...bye-bye WMP!

Step3...install stripped OS onto RAM drive

Step4...create Ghost image of OS and store on real HDD

Step5... pwnage and mass adulation

:P

[Virtualbody1234]

Step 1....Install RAM drive card w/ 1GB installed

Step2...create custom XP install using nLite (http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4324.html) (my first attempt yeilded a 950MB XP Pro, I'll be more ruthless next time...bye-bye WMP!

Step3...install stripped OS onto RAM drive

Step4...create Ghost image of OS and store on real HDD

Step5... pwnage and mass adulation

:P
Better with more than 1GB.

[muchspl3]

yea I would get at least 2gb, cheap ram would be fine, hell you can get 2gb for 150
http://www.dvcentury.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=88-989-2128

[Darth Sushi]

Unfortunately, expected shipping date won't be until the third quarter http://www.mcbriens.net/liam/img/smilies/kaboom.gif

[lynx]

Seems a little pointless having a setup like that for extra fast booting, for those of us who never reboot. :rolleyes:

I think I'd use it for the page file, browser cache and temp files instead.

[clocker]

Seems a little pointless having a setup like that for extra fast booting, for those of us who never reboot. :rolleyes:

I think I'd use it for the page file, browser cache and temp files instead.
Wouldn't quick boot times just be icing on the cake?
I would think the whole operation of the OS would be faster also.

[gildan2020]

but u can't really think that ur comp can stay on forever, can u?
imagine power outage, hardware failures and etc...

putting an OS on it is not really that feasible


gildan2020

[Snee]

It can be done, I dunno' if I'd like having to sort it out, but with a multiboot system or a bootable cd, it'd be easy to copy the os back onto the RAM-drive in case of failure, and then, hopefully, it should just be a matter of rebooting, your bootsector might need a bit of fiddling if you set it up in a multiboot config, but I bet it'd be doable.

If you did lots of changes some kind of scheduled ghosting would be advisable, I suppose.