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DSI Delivers up to 3GB/s with Solid State Disk

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the nifty-dram-tricks dept.

olivesaregross writes "'Running at what the company says is 250 times the speed of conventional hard drives, it won't come cheap, but it will be fast. It uses DRAM memory to store data instead of spinning platter hard drives, giving an access time of just 20 microseconds.' It still does use platter-based drives but it's a cool idea anyway. Techworld has another story on it."

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  1. Looks like those companies... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are already starting the hard work on getting the components together to meet the minimum specs for running Longhorn. Huzzah!

  2. Re:Pricing by corbettw · · Score: 4, Funny

    I may be wrong... but I cannot RTFA.. the site is /.tted...

    Apparently, increasing memory access times wasn't the panacea they thought it would be.

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  3. DSI Delivers up to 3GB/s... by ForestGrump · · Score: 4, Funny

    damn and I thought I could get a 3GB/s DSL line...

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  4. Re:Obligatory first post! by morcheeba · · Score: 4, Funny

    At 3 GB/sec, you can get 3000x3000 uncompressed video at 100 Hz refresh rate, with 1600 channels of uncompressed 96kHz 32-bit sound. Or compress it and get 35000x35000 resolution.

    Pure bliss. But, at that rate, the largest drive (64GB) would only last 21 seconds.

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  5. Now that's a drive... by theendlessnow · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...for Longhorn!!