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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. Consumer edition by swb · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How many 1G sticks of RAM could you put into your standard Firewire/USB2 enclosure? Why couldn't someone make a USB2/Firewire/SCSI enclosure that the host system saw as a mass storage device but was actually just a smaller version of the above? It might be really useful for some DB applications, video editing, etc.

    I can't imagine that an enclosure of that type would run more than $500, plus the cost of the RAM that went into it. It might not be consumer cost effective, but it could be worthwhile at the prosumer or low end, where the RAM disks shown on /. are almost never affordable but by the richest organizations.