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RAM Disk Puts New Spin On the SSD
theraindog writes "Although the solid-state storage market is currently dominated by flash-based devices, you can also build an SSD out of standard system memory modules. Hardware-based RAM disks tend to be prohibitively expensive, but ACard has built an affordable one that supports up to 64GB of standard DDR2 memory and features dual Serial ATA ports to improve performance with RAID configurations. And it's driver-free and OS-independent, too. The Tech Report's in-depth review of the ANS-9010 RAM disk pits it against the fastest SSDs around and nicely illustrates the drive's staggering performance potential with multitasking and multi-user loads. However, it also highlights the device's shortcomings, including the fact that SSDs are more practical for most applications."
It's slower, more expensive, but it adds nice blinking leds on your PC !
Would you rethink your definition of fail if they were using a Sony laptop battery?
But just look at those doom 3 level load times! I DON'T HAVE 7 SECONDS TO SPARE!
(also, i use solid gold SATA cables so my data doesn't get dirty)
How does this thing handle getting the power cord yanked in the middle of a large write operation?
Since you didn't RTFA, you'll be happy to know that you can keep on gloating. The thing has absolutely no backup mechanism, no battery, no ability to write to a CF card. If the power so much as winks, all of your data is garbage.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
So section off a bit of your memory as a ramdisk, and put the swap file there. Still going to be better than the SATA bottleneck.
SIGSEGV caught, terminating
wait... not that kind of sig.