Bring back the I-Ram

Quddy said:
I still have one of these (£60 import + cheap memory from auction site), bought it a few years ago.

It is very fast, I used to have XP Pro on it. Loading was very quick and windows was generally a lot snappier. I have Vista Business 32-bit now (won't fit) so I use it for my pagefile and general temporary files area (extracting RARs etc...), makes Vista a bit more pleasant.

The battery actually isn't required for day to day use (my one died and I have never replaced it). It is only required if you unplug the PC from the mains or turn the PSU switch off. It retains its memory even when shut down as there is always a little power going through the motherboard. The battery was block shaped, like those you get in some digital cameras.

Only problem with it is that it doesn't support AHCI (Intel chipset) so you need to set it to IDE or RAID mode.
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Could you run some benchmarks on it HDtach or similar

Cheers
 
Thing is with the price dropping of SSDs and the performance as well as size increasing the point of this ram drive is, er pointless.

Still limited by the 300Mb/sec SATA 300 transfer rate anyway. Plus its the access time that is the important thing really.
 
Concorde Rules said:
Thing is with the price dropping of SSDs and the performance as well as size increasing the point of this ram drive is, er pointless.

Still limited by the 300Mb/sec SATA 300 transfer rate anyway. Plus its the access time that is the important thing really.
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So, what would be faster then?
 
i could be wrong but isnt SSD still have higher access times than DDR/DDR2 ram? and also they are both limited to the SATA 300 transfer rate?
 
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