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I have been reading articles about iRAM Here is a link to one.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,121105,00.asp

All of the articles say iRam will be availbe in July but I have not found a place to buy one. Does anyone know where I can get my hands on one of these?

Thanks,
Nightblood

it's all over the news but so far I have yet to seen any retail at all. I wonder could this be another one of those that got paper launch or too expensive to sell.

Sounds like a good idea, but if you lost power for any extended period of time, there goes your OS, and that doesn't sound good. There should be some kind of way to back-up the data on your hard drive before you shut it down if you know you're going to have the computer off for an extended amount of time. Unless the onboard battery they were talking about lasts a really long time. Either way, I'm suprised this hasn't come out sooner, and why it's not on the market now? I've been wondering why they haven't built a solid-state hard drive by now? We have the technology to do it. If we can make a 4gig Flash drive that fits on your keychain, why can't we build a hard drive built on the same process? Then your drive would be just as quick as a regular flash drive, which would mean Windows would boot in seconds and all your data would be moving at(if they used USB type technology) 400MB+ per second. Now that would make for fast loading games and programs.

Can someone tell me why we don't have that yet?

hm... I guess that's a good question. should ask a hard drive manufacturer. that would also solve the heat issue. also break down because of the moving parts would be history.

i know why it hasnt been done yet, its very simple.
It just to darn expensive for most people.
So little people will buy it
And what only makes it worse is that the production costs are very high.

It's only $100 or so, at least according to Anandtech.
Can't link the article though since it's against the rules.

I've also considered buying it, but then I came to my senses and decided $500 ($100 card + four 1GB memory sticks) for 4GB of solid-state storage wasn't really worth it.

Sure the extra speed would be nice, but it's a bit too rich for me.
(Actually, it might be nice to use as a pagefile partition.)

@Camride:
It doesn't matter if your computer is off, as long as the card is plugged into the PCI slot and the power supply is on, the data will be safe. Only if the PSU is shut off or if the card is unplugged does the backup battery kick in.

y, 100 dollars for the converter (cause thats just what it is) only
and then like u sdaid another atleast 400 buck for ram.

And a $100 for a converter only is already expensive (ATA to SATA can be had for $20)
I believe u if u say ram might be harder to convert, but still prices should get in the 20-40 range be4 more people will buy it...

DanielDev wrote:y, 100 dollars for the converter (cause thats just what it is) only
and then like u sdaid another atleast 400 buck for ram.

And a $100 for a converter only is already expensive (ATA to SATA can be had for $20)
I believe u if u say ram might be harder to convert, but still prices should get in the 20-40 range be4 more people will buy it...

According to the articles that I read the pci card was only $60.
And I don't think it is fair to comare iram to SATA and ATA since the performance it atleast 5 times faster.

The real cost comes with the memory. That and your still limited by the SATA bandwidth and limited by the cpu. Because Hard drives have been a bottle neck for so long computer archetectures have been optomized to avoid using the HD when ever it can. That means that no mater how fast your drive is the performance improvement is very samll.