Wow 32GB of DDR2 doesn't even cost that much. Didn't Gigabyte have some PCI RAM drive thing that hooks up to SATA?

Originally Posted by s3v3n
Wow 32GB of DDR2 doesn't even cost that much. Didn't Gigabyte have some PCI RAM drive thing that hooks up to SATA?

Yes, but as far as I remember is was limited to 4GB and DDR1
Still, a P45 board with 32GB RAM with 24BG as a RAM disk would be cheaper and faster :)

how about in the next review you include the popular WD 6400aals i would like to see how this compares to the spinpoint f1

http://www.acard.com.tw/english/fb01-product.jsp?prod_no=ANS-9010&type1_title=%20Solid%20State%20Drive&idno_no=270

That's a more up-to-date version of a RAM drive. Up to 64GB DDR2, raid0 capable on single unit for extra bandwidth, faster reads/writes than the X25-E. A bit more expensive to populate to 64GB but still less than two Intel drives in raid0.

I am confused about the whole SLC slow write comment thing. I've never heard of that issue before and you don't include any data whatsoever to back up your conclusion that subsequent writes will be slower. Could you test on fresh drive then fill completely with data, delete, and repeat the original testing on a non-fresh drive?

I'm eagerly waiting to see your review of Velociraptor versus these Intel SSD drives and the other JMicron controller drives.

So whats the difference between this and several 1TB drives in RAID?