Gigabyte's i-RAM: Affordable Solid State Storage
by Anand Lal Shimpi on July 25, 2005 3:50 PM EST- Posted in
- Storage
i-RAM Pure I/O Performance
We begin our usual hard disk drive test session with Intel's IPEAK benchmarking utility. We first run a trace capture on Winstone 2004's Business and Multimedia Content Creation benchmark runs to catch all of the IO operations that take place during each test. We then play each capture back using RankDisk, which reports back to us a mean service time, or average time that the drive takes to complete an IO operation.| Pure I/O Performance Comparison (Results in IO ops/second Higher is Better) | |||||
IPEAK Business Winstone 2004 |
IPEAK Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004 |
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| Gigabyte i-RAM (4GB) | 4347.8 |
1754.4 |
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| Western Digital Raptor (74GB) | 735.3 |
467.3 |
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Not too surprising is the i-RAM's dominance here, performing almost 6x the speed of the Raptor in the IPEAK trace of Business Winstone 2004 and 3.75x in the IPEAK MMCC trace.
Absolutely incredible I/O performance is to be expected from the i-RAM. The question is, how does it translate into real world performance?
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ceefka - Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - link
That and/or having the possibility to install very large amounts of RAM (like 32GB) on your motherboard and BIOS settings to decide how much of that is non-volatile.I have a feeling this is a transitional product that while being a very nice add on to your current system, will become obsolete in 4 to 5 years. If I had to capture loads of high sampled audio (96/24), I'd want one now, though.
Furen - Monday, July 25, 2005 - link
I was expecting something closer to the $50 price mentioned at computex... It would have been a nice device to tinker around with, but at that price (plus the price of ram) I dont think most of us will get it.weazel1 - Sunday, November 4, 2012 - link
why they have to waste pci bus speeds and run though a sata chip beyound me it should directly conect to the pci bus have its own bois and run as full fleached ram or as normal ram with a redirect to being a hdd heack u have ram disk software idea the drive is pretty useless as permenment storage why no1 could see this i do not know