Where I can buy PCI / PCIe / PCIx Memory disk drive ?

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Hello,
I'm looking for PCI / PCIe / PCIx memory disk drive. It's card with memory,
but it's visible for PC like HDD. I just want to use it as very fast drive
for swap file. currently I have installed maximum memory at my PC, and I
can't add more :(
 
Just curious;
You are maxed on memory - amount?
and still making intensive use of swap file?
what are you doing with this pc?
 
TTT_TTT said:
Hello,
I'm looking for PCI / PCIe / PCIx memory disk drive. It's card with
memory, but it's visible for PC like HDD. I just want to use it as
very fast drive for swap file. currently I have installed maximum
memory at my PC, and I can't add more :(
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You're looking for a Gigabyte i-ram
(http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/83684/gigabyte-iram.html), you can get one
from Scan:
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=427438

heaven knows who stocks it outside the UK though.
 
TTT_TTT said:
I need solution for PCI-e or PCI-x...
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You originally asked for PCI.

I believe PCI cards, such as the one we identified, will plug into a PCI-X
board and work just fine. If that isn't what you want then you may want to
contact the manufacturers directly and ask them because at the moment I
don't think anyone is actually making anything else.
 
Al said:
What are you doing that needs that much memory?
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It's only 4GB of memory we're talking about here at the most, and the
product we're discussing won't increase the amount of RAM available to the
system, it will provide a RAM Disk to store the swap file.

It isn't that difficult to fill 4GB of RAM in serious professional
application use, absolutely trivial with server apps.
 
It's only 4GB of memory we're talking about here at the most, and the
product we're discussing won't increase the amount of RAM available to the
system, it will provide a RAM Disk to store the swap file.

It isn't that difficult to fill 4GB of RAM in serious professional
application use, absolutely trivial with server apps.
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Yup. I'm asking if there is anything unusual.

Have you measured the your IO to the pagefile? Size isn't the
performace hit, it's the pages/sec rate.
 
Ok thanks for reply. I hope PCI card will work fine in PCI-x slot.

I need so much memory because me Windows 2003 Standard Edition 32bit Server
need more than 4 GB, and useing swap file at 15K SCSI HDD terriblle decrase
performance.... I hope I-RAM improve performance...
 
Ok thanks for reply. I hope PCI card will work fine in PCI-x slot.

I need so much memory because me Windows 2003 Standard Edition 32bit Server
need more than 4 GB, and useing swap file at 15K SCSI HDD terriblle decrase
performance.... I hope I-RAM improve performance...
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Perfmon should be able to give you an estimate about how much I/O you
are doing to the pagefile. A faster pagefiile can only help so much.
It doesn't eliminate the context switches and page faults. 64 bit
server is the answer, but you probably already know that.
 
TTT_TTT said:
Ok thanks for reply. I hope PCI card will work fine in PCI-x slot.

I need so much memory because me Windows 2003 Standard Edition 32bit
Server need more than 4 GB, and useing swap file at 15K SCSI HDD
terriblle decrase performance.... I hope I-RAM improve performance...
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i-RAM will NOT increase the amount of memory available to your system. If
you're sure that putting your pagefile onto an iRAM then by all means carry
on but if you have any doubt then rather than risk throwing good money after
bad I'd strongly suggest looking at upgrading at this point.
 
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