Hot!

[clocker]

Here we go....

And compared to a 74GB Raptor...


I don't know how to describe the performance.
The install went completely as normal...the iRAM shows up in BIOS and to Windows as a standard drive (albeit only 4GB).
"Formatting" was instantaneous but the Windows install took the normal amount of time- the CD is the bottleneck here, not the HDD.

Right after the initial install (before any drivers were installed) the progress bar on the Windows load screen just flashed by and wham! there's the desktop.
Now that all the drivers are in place I see about 1/3 of the first progress bar pass and then...desktop.
No fuss, no muss, no waiting.

Response in Windows is very snappy, I would say noticably quicker than in the Raptor RAID0 array.
Of course, I want the iRAM to be great...it was expensive and frivolous but it is measurably fast.
Just look at the zero access time in HDTach.

Does the iRAM make any sort of defensible sense...nope.
Is it fun...oh yeah!

[Duffman]

now, mine is prettier, but what does it mean, what does it mean!

[clocker]

Go to Control Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager>IDE Controllers and find the controller that your RAID array is on.
Turn off "NCQ" (if present) and "write caching".

Those drives tested like this when I had them...