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A New DRAM Hard Drive on the Block
Gigabyte certainly created a stir earlier this year when it debuted its i-RAM solid state hard drive composed of DRAM modules. Inside, the i-RAM offers a PCI-type add-in card that hosts four DDR memory modules and hooks up to a mass storage controller via Serial ATA. A battery unit backs up the data stored in the memory when the PC is powered down. The main feature of the i-RAM and RAM-based drives in general is their amazingly short access times and data transfer rates that easily exceed the bandwidth of common hard drive interfaces such as UltraATA or Serial ATA. ...
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