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Hard Drive of the Future: Ram Drive
benzick writes "3d Retreat has posted a hands on look at a 2gig ram drive called the Rocket Drive. Article blurb: Overall the rocket drive is the best in I/O performance I have seen. It outperforms U160 SCSI drives by almost a factor of two. Yet there are some drawbacks to the Rocket drive, foremost is the price, although listed at the end of the review is some alternative pricing options to make it less expensive. And the rocket drive can not act as a boot drive. Also, if you have some extra money to spend, you can use multiple rocket drives in parallel."
The optimization you describe seems to target transfer rates more than latency.
Yep, that's the real problem. "Geeks" don't usually like to address any problems though unless they're trendy problems. Neon lights, and cooling solutions (for systems that don't warrant it). You can have a 500MB/Sec bus for storage, and never put more than 40MB/sec on it because of the shit drives that are connected to the other end. It's ridiculous.
I used RAM drives in DOS about 8 years ago. Why wouldn't you just add the RAM to your mb though where your access to it isn't hampered by your shit-slow PCI bus and save yourself the couple of grand for some hookers and beer.. something everyone here could use more of.