Thread: Budget battery-backed ramdisk (Gigabyte i-RAM)
Review http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2480 Slashdot http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/26/1229211&tid=198 Might be useful for those of us working with "budget" systems. If anyone does make a purchase, please post your investigations to the list - I for one would be interested. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd
On Jul 26, 2005, at 1:25 PM, Richard Huxton wrote: > Review > http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2480 > Slashdot > http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/26/1229211&tid=198 > > Might be useful for those of us working with "budget" systems. If > anyone does make a purchase, please post your investigations to > the list - I for one would be interested. But don't put important data on it since it doesn't do ECC RAM.... Vivek Khera, Ph.D. +1-301-869-4449 x806
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On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 10:56, Vivek Khera wrote: > On Jul 26, 2005, at 1:25 PM, Richard Huxton wrote: > > > Review > > http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2480 > > Slashdot > > http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/26/1229211&tid=198 > > > > Might be useful for those of us working with "budget" systems. If > > anyone does make a purchase, please post your investigations to > > the list - I for one would be interested. > > But don't put important data on it since it doesn't do ECC RAM.... Considering the small incremental cost of ECC ram, it's hard to believe someone would build one of those without it. Heck, I'd think a RAID5 array of Ipod shuffles might be more reliable. That's a joke, but only halfway...
On Jul 27, 2005, at 12:09 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 10:56, Vivek Khera wrote: >> >> But don't put important data on it since it doesn't do ECC RAM.... >> > > Considering the small incremental cost of ECC ram, it's hard to > believe > someone would build one of those without it. This device comes with no RAM -- you add your own. However, it doesn't even *support* ECC. That's idiotic, I think. Vivek Khera, Ph.D. +1-301-869-4449 x806