On Mon, Mar 20 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > While responding to email related to Bugzilla# 6163 [1], I took a look > at the Gigabyte i-Ram[2]: PCI card, where PCI only provides power to > some DIMMs. Data xfer to/from DIMMs via SATA cable. So, at current > prices[3] one can get a 1GB Solid State Disk for US$206: US$153 for the > card, and US$53 for 1GB pc2700 ddr. > > I'm impressed. I ordered one to help debug BZ#6163, but I think these > cards will help expose bugs in libata due to their high speed. With > these cards, we can push more data through libata than would normally be > possible with a standard disk drive. But they are still only 1.5Gbps, right? Which is really a shame, since that makes it only about twice as fast as the good drives out there in terms of sequential transfer. Seeks are in a different league of course :-) Still strange why they did not go for the full 3.0Gbps link speed. -- Jens Axboe - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
