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    worlds fastest SSD ... omg

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by miro_gt, Nov 1, 2008.

  1. miro_gt

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  2. plasma.

    plasma. herpyderpy

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    holy ****. 512GB?
     
    plasma., Nov 1, 2008
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    too bad it isn't portable
     
    namaiki_old, Nov 1, 2008
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    Now if only they could get that thing down to 2.5" and in the $500 price range >_>
     
    laserbullet, Nov 1, 2008
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    Yeah, to think I seriously expected to see a little box...
     
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  6. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    sounds like it is really a ramdisc, from their wording of ddr memory.
    Also its performance is like the gigabyte i-ram, where ddr memory is used and a battery is used to hold the charge, keeping the data alive when the system is off.

    Sounds cool, but I have a feeling it is going to cost one pretty penny :D

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Nov 1, 2008
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    well, it is called the RAMsan

    quote: "RAIDed RAM boards protect against the loss of an entire memory board."
     
    namaiki_old, Nov 1, 2008
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    Power consumption: 650 watts at peak.

    Good luck fitting that in even a desktop.
     
    rapion125, Nov 1, 2008
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    Should cost as much as a small car. :D
     
    Ayle, Nov 2, 2008
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    This isn't exactly new or practical for 99.99% of the world's population. Maybe one day in the future, just like now as we look back to times when 640kb of memory was impossibly huge lol.
     
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    i'd love to use a ramdisk sure.. its impossibly fast, I could even live with the risk of data loss when its left unpowered for more than a day... i just can't live with the fact that the only economically viable ramdisk (the iram) only supports up to 4gb of memory....
    IMO the best solution for those that want a ramdisk is to buy a server motherboard(only for desktops lol) many of which support large quantities of ram ( up to about 32gb)... and just use a software based ramdisk for installing programs etc... (of course you wouldn't b able to run an OS of it unless u'd use a virtual machine).......
     
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    Depends how many volts the 9000mah is measured at - at 19V (most laptop batteries), it'd be roughly sixteen minutes XD

    If you're talking backup batteries:

    9000mah 12v battery: 10 minutes
    9000mAh 24v battery: 20 minutes
     
    Dragunov-21, Nov 3, 2008
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    Voltage doesn't matter.

    a bettary is designed for specific voltage that your system uses, so if you want to know how much time it will last then you need to know the XXXX mah, which is mili ampers per hour, and how many amps your system uses to operate. Like if it uses 9A to operate, then with 9000mah battery it will work 1 hour.

    if you have a system that uses 12V and you plug 24V battery, then boom (most likely). Same thing like if you plug 120V lamp into 240V power outlet,lol

    the fact that the second battery has 2 times the power of the first one is another story.
     
    miro_gt, Nov 3, 2008
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    ...such as the Ferrari F430 :D
     
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    Voltage does matter, as you're only given the wattage of the ramdisk. A nine amp-hour battery that supplies 12V can hold 108 watt-hours of energy, a nine amp-hour battery that supplies 24 volts can hold 216 watt-hours.

    Basically the point I was making was that you aren't given enough information, so I gave a couple of possibilities as to what voltages it might use, and the time each would last on a 9AH battery at each voltage.
     
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    Could probably slap together a few 128GB SSDs together into a desktop and be happy with the price / performance.

    :rolleyes:
     
    I♥RAM, Nov 3, 2008
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    Not on my paycheck you couldn't XD

    /student
     
    Dragunov-21, Nov 4, 2008
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