Friday, June 03

Geek

Gigabytes!

And about bleeding time too. I've been waiting for someone to do this for years. Its so bloody obvious, but the few attempts that have appeared on the market have been absurdly - almost criminally - overpriced.

What?

Oh.

This:

GBramdisk.jpg

It's a battery-backed RAM disk on a PCI card. The actual interface is SATA, so it works as a standard disk drive without any drivers; the PCI slot just provides the power. The battery is good for about 16 hours, which should cover most power failures, and it looks like it would be easy enough to plug in something beefier if you needed it.

Best part? Well, two best parts. Three.

One, it doesn't come with any memory. In previous cases (the unlamented Platypus Technology cards, for example) you had to buy the card with memory already installed, at a 300% markup, and you couldn't upgrade it later.

Two, it uses ordinary DDR RAM, which is cheap as a very cheap thing at the moment.

Three, $50.

I want at least three of these puppies. And another three for work.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:08 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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1 l33t

Posted by: TallDave at Friday, June 03 2005 03:21 PM (9XE6n)

2 Oooooooooooooooooooooooooh...

Posted by: Wonderduck at Saturday, June 04 2005 01:16 AM (IobEe)

3 Now that is cool. It would be worth having just for swap / scratch space...

Posted by: Dominic at Saturday, June 04 2005 06:23 AM (uyRJS)

4 Oooooooh. Puter PR0N!

Posted by: Margi at Saturday, June 04 2005 07:43 PM (nwEQH)

5 The funny thing is, almost everyone who sees this says "hey, that would be great for my Windows paging file". Message to Microsoft: Your memory management is complete crap!!! Linux memory management is pretty retarded too, but as of the 2.6 kernel it has a handy "stop acting retarded" switch: echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness Works like a dream.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, June 07 2005 01:10 PM (+S1Ft)

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