All I can do is sit here and salivate at the speeds of this thing

http://www.pcper.c...id=224&type=expert

so...um do you just put normal sticks of RAM in it? or does it have a specified kind you have to put in?

Posted by Kbasa so...um do you just put normal sticks of RAM in it? or does it have a specified kind you have to put in?

From what it looks like they are saying, all you need are regular DIMMs of DDR RAM. Doesn't have to be fast either.

you might find this interesting. Apparently it actually is as fast as they say:

http://video.googl...709&q=i-mesh%20ram

sounds pretty cool, would be awesome for boot up and stuff...however DDR is quite expensive, ill watch the video later, i have a bunch of stuff downloading.

that looks friggin' sweet!

Now personally the hard drive alternatives I want to see start getting out there is Holographic Storage or Biometric storage devices.

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We're getting closer....

http://en.wikipedi.../wiki/Hybrid_drive

Its a pretty cool idea, but then you need to look at the down sides....


The first and most major one is: Although their is a battery backup, it only lasts 4 hours... So lets say you move to a new state, and don't get a chance to plug the PC in till the next day. Your battery loses it's charge, and the memory loses all your data since there is no charge in it now.

The second thing is, your limited to the amount of memory you can fit in it... I would say the max you can get is 4 gigs, which is enough to run the OS.


How do you think RAID would work on this type of drive/card? Would be interesting to find out.

"The first and most major one is: Although their is a battery backup, it only lasts 4 hours... So lets say you move to a new state, and don't get a chance to plug the PC in till the next day. Your battery loses it's charge, and the memory loses all your data since there is no charge in it now."

Move the data to a hard drive.

"The second thing is, your limited to the amount of memory you can fit in it... I would say the max you can get is 4 gigs, which is enough to run the OS."

How do you figure the max is 4GB, Ive seen some take up to 16GB (8 X 2GB Sticks)

"How do you think RAID would work on this type of drive/card? Would be interesting to find out. "

It should be shown as a regular hard drive. Im sure it should be pretty simple, software RAID of course.

"How do you figure the max is 4GB, Ive seen some take up to 16GB (8 X 2GB Sticks)"
The iram can only take up to 1gb from what i hear. And the iram only has 4 dimm slots.. not 8.

"Move the data to a hard drive."
On a windows system, with NTFS thats a bit harder. To make this work out well, wouldn't you need a hard drive or partition dedicated to use for backing up the ram? I've also had issues imaging the entire drive over to another drive with windows on it. Windows likes to bluescreen when that happens. Although a chkdisk and fixmbr usualy fixes that.

Posted by Crazydeep74 "The first and most major one is: Although their is a battery backup, it only lasts 4 hours... So lets say you move to a new state, and don't get a chance to plug the PC in till the next day. Your battery loses it's charge, and the memory loses all your data since there is no charge in it now." Move the data to a hard drive. "The second thing is, your limited to the amount of memory you can fit in it... I would say the max you can get is 4 gigs, which is enough to run the OS." How do you figure the max is 4GB, Ive seen some take up to 16GB (8 X 2GB Sticks) "How do you think RAID would work on this type of drive/card? Would be interesting to find out. " It should be shown as a regular hard drive. Im sure it should be pretty simple, software RAID of course.

A better alternative might be something similar based on flash memory. I've heard some rumblings that somebody might be coming up with something like that, but nothing solid yet. Still, 4 GB flash drives are becoming more common - won't be long before they can do 200 GB or so I bet.

Posted by Watcher A better alternative might be something similar based on flash memory. I've heard some rumblings that somebody might be coming up with something like that, but nothing solid yet. Still, 4 GB flash drives are becoming more common - won't be long before they can do 200 GB or so I bet.

This has a large Flash drive backed up by an HDD.

http://en.wikipedi.../wiki/Hybrid_drive

""How do you figure the max is 4GB, Ive seen some take up to 16GB (8 X 2GB Sticks)"
The iram can only take up to 1gb from what i hear. And the iram only has 4 dimm slots.. not 8."
Not the perticular unit im talking about, there.