From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: Gigabyte i-Ram cards Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:33:56 +0100 Message-ID: <20060322073355.GU4285@suse.de> References: <441F63E6.2090204@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:63755 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751066AbWCVHdz (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 02:33:55 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <441F63E6.2090204@garzik.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" On Mon, Mar 20 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > While responding to email related to Bugzilla# 6163 [1], I took a look > at the Gigabyte i-Ram[2]: PCI card, where PCI only provides power to > some DIMMs. Data xfer to/from DIMMs via SATA cable. So, at current > prices[3] one can get a 1GB Solid State Disk for US$206: US$153 for the > card, and US$53 for 1GB pc2700 ddr. > > I'm impressed. I ordered one to help debug BZ#6163, but I think these > cards will help expose bugs in libata due to their high speed. With > these cards, we can push more data through libata than would normally be > possible with a standard disk drive. But they are still only 1.5Gbps, right? Which is really a shame, since that makes it only about twice as fast as the good drives out there in terms of sequential transfer. Seeks are in a different league of course :-) Still strange why they did not go for the full 3.0Gbps link speed. -- Jens Axboe