GigaByte's iDrive Hard Disk

Discussion in 'Storage Devices' started by pelvis_3, Sep 21, 2005.

  1. pelvis_3

    pelvis_3 HWF Member For Life

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    GigaByte is soon to be releasing what they call 'iDrive'!
    Based around a PCI card the new iDrive is in concept a Hard Drive that uses any RAM from DDR266 upwards, utilises a SATA interface build on SATA1 standards!

    Check it out >
    http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20050907/index.html

    Looks promising although i would like to see alot more then 4GB's !
     
    pelvis_3, Sep 21, 2005
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  2. Addis

    Addis The King

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    Yea using RAM as mass storage would be great, but its getting past the density and cost problems.
     
    Addis, Sep 21, 2005
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  3. Matt555

    Matt555 iMod

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    yeah it would cost a fortune...its a very good idea though.
     
    Matt555, Sep 21, 2005
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  4. ninja fetus

    ninja fetus I'm a thugged out gangsta

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    kinda dumb, ram doesn't last as long as a hard drive and 16-hours (when battery is in peak condition most likely) isn't much. Anything important-HDD it up.
     
    ninja fetus, Sep 22, 2005
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  5. Addis

    Addis The King

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    What would be truly good is having static RAM solid state storage. Static ram uses transistors instead of a capacitor and transistor to hold bits. Meaing that they don't have to be refreshed like DRAM. But they're expensive as hell.
     
    Addis, Sep 22, 2005
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