On 10/31/06, Adam <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 this, and if so was there a noticeable performance increase?
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 motherboard is decent. the main advantage of the iram that i see is faster boot times (big woop). call me when they have a version that does 256gb :-) merlin
