Gigabyte i-RAM Solid State Storage Device > Anyone Got One / Getting One?

trojan698 · 12 May 2006 at 18:19

whats the deal with the battery life? Surely they could produce something that doesnt lose its memory, like my mp3 player for example

Lithium · 12 May 2006 at 19:50

If your mp3 player is non volatile solid state memory then it is nowhere near as fast as traditional volatile ram and its also got a limited life span with limited read/write cycles.

goreblast · 12 May 2006 at 20:37

There is a lithium battery on the board which if removed from the motherboard or the psu is turned off at the wall or on the back of the PSU will supposidly keep data safe for upto 14 hours. Otherwise whilst powered it should be there until you delete it.

dabotsonline · 13 May 2006 at 01:51

Lithium said:
What i would like to do is store my OS/APPS on a hard-drive but load it into memory at boot time (or at will!) and have the ram updated from the hard-drive.

Puppy Linux 1.0.x and Puppy2 can do that: http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=7572 ( http://www.puppyos.com ).