Thomas Wendell said:
How about using that iRam as swap and temp disk??
That would be a mighty expensive experiment, with little hope of any return
on investment. If your computer is slow because of constantly thrashing the
hard drive to access the page file, the solution to that problem is to add
more RAM to your mainboard. The "swap" is simply using a hard drive to
simulate more physical RAM.
So ..................................... Using the iRam as swap would be
simply moving the physical location of the RAM that is being used. In other
words, it would unnecessarily complicate things. You'd be using several
pieces of hardware when -one- (that is, a 1 or 2Gig stick of RAM) would do
the same thing. Plus, the SATA interface data throughput would be slower
than the RAM could be accessed. So you'd be trading fast RAM for slower
RAM.
As for using it as a temp disk . . . again, there wouldn't be a speed
increase unless your temp files were always under ~4GB maximum. If you are
seeing significant slowdowns related to accessing temp directories on a hard
drive, you are probably working with significantly huge temp files (video
editing?). So the iRam as temp disk would be good in theory, but ONLY IF IT
HAD SIGNIFICANTLY LARGER STORAGE CAPACITY.
Like I said before it is a half-baked idea. Increase the non-volatile
storage time to 30 days or more, and increase capacity to 10Gig or larger,
and it will be an interesting solution. Right now, it is a gimmick.
The only situation I can think of where it might make a difference . . . if
you have an older computer that you want to add more RAM to, and the
mainboard limits the amount of RAM that you can add. For example, if your
mainboard supports 2Gig maximum and you want to add more than that, the
i-Ram would help you there. But even then, the money that you spent on the
i-Ram COULD have been spent on a better mainboard.
No, I think the iRam still has a long way to come before it is useful, at
all. -Dave
