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Does this still exist? - Where do I get one?

Fred Flintstone
By Fred Flintstone
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I wanna know if there's a way to get one of these, just to see how it works. I know the MSRP was ridiculous for the performance it offered, and now a $60 SSD would make it bite the dust.

I looked on eBay and no one seems to have it for sale, neither on Amazon.

Sorry for the image quality, my phone is low-res. Here's a link, http://www.ddrdrive.com/menu1.html.

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It's called a ramdrive It's more like a dedicated cache than a storage device. It will have massively improved IO but you need to run software for it and the prevalence of SSDs largely killed the idea. 

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2 minutes ago, kerradeph said:

It's called a ramdrive It's more like a dedicated cache than a storage device. It will have massively improved IO but you need to run software for it and the prevalence of SSDs largely killed the idea. 

Kind of like intel optane?

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2 minutes ago, Zonther said:

Kind of like intel optane?

Yes but for enterprise level.

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Gigabyte did one ... search for Gigabyte i-ram  , or GC-RAMDISK  : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-RAM

 

it used 4 x 1 GB DDR sticks and showed up as a SATA device

 

You could probably make one with a sort of expensive (thinking 30-50$) FPGA chip , you put the sata controller and ddr2 / ddr3 controller in them (you may have to buy the IP as well, if you can't find an open source version) and you made yourself a ssd using ram.

 

 

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1 minute ago, mariushm said:

Gigabyte did one ... search for Gigabyte i-ram  , or GC-RAMDISK  : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-RAM

 

it used 4 x 1 GB DDR sticks and showed up as a SATA device

 

You could probably make one with a sort of expensive (thinking 30-50$) FPGA chip , you put the sata controller and ddr2 / ddr3 controller in them (you may have to buy the IP as well, if you can't find an open source version) and you made yourself a ssd using ram.

 

 

I still have my Gigabyte I-RAM! lol

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