Boot up in seconds ! gigabytes IRAM

[TrinireturnofGamez]

 Gigabyte is selling a PCI card that has 4 DDR   slots , a battery , and a SATA connector , it will be detected as a hard drive when installed, making it possible to install windows on it and boot off it ,   thanks to the battery, it will be able to stay several hours without power and not loose data . Though it will be limited to 4 gigs of storage,  thats enough for windows , drivers  etc. and some virtual RAM .  This could be the next big thing in high end / server rigs,with 3-4 of these cards and a normal hard drive , they would be able to access files at blisteringly high speeds and greatly improving performance .

http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2434

[JoKeRs]

READ THE PREVIEW

BUT THE ONLY DOWNSIDE TO IT
IS THE YOUTH OF THIS TECHNOLOGY
AND THE LIMITED MEMORY BUS BANDWIDTH

[TriniXaeno]

oh sweet mother.

I wish this was around back in win2k days though. Boot up times was a real pain.

As it stands, the windows XP on our GL machines already boot up in a few seconds.

[bushman5]

old news boy

[W1nTry]

I rem hearing about these kinda things on TechTV like 2 yrs ago. Its nothing new and the fact that solid state HDs have not caught on yet is a direct indication that its not favoured by most. Sure its a nice idea and sure it'll help in some instances. However is boot time enough to warrant the undoubtedly high price associated with it? I think not. One may argue it'll decrease loading times on games too, sure, it might esp with games like Doom3, however u can just buy more RAM and make a logical HD from a portion of ur RAM. SO buy like 2 cheap 1GB DDR400 or 512MB and use the 1GB as the drive. simpler and cheaper.

[cdx2k1]

What happens when the battery dies?HAHAHAHA.LOL.Sometimes I amuse myself *blushes*
It's purrdy though.

[Xel_NagaOvermind]

The reason 'memory' based mass storage is not the go at the moment is cost and power
But i believe samsung plans to release 2 sizes of flash based mass storage a 2.5" disk size with 16 GB and a 1.8" disk size with 8 Gb ,of course flash is a lot slower than sd mem but then there is the advantage of cheaper costs and no battery needed when the system is powered down,there were also rumours of combos a hard disk with a couple Gigs in flash where the hd itself would put frequently accessed files on the flash portion.
did someone post that already?

[W1nTry]

Yeah they recently made that announcement. However think of its applications instead of those external drive bays with a normal ATA HD in it. I would much rather have a Flash drive as those things are proving VERY durable. Man boil it, wash it in they clothes and de thing still woking!!! plus it sporting speeds of ATA66 right now I think, so its not that bad. As time goes along it should develop and get better data rates.

[cdx2k1]

Why dind't they just develop them for PCI-E?That was smart.