For ca. 2 uger siden, dukkede den første store test op af Gigabyte's i-RAM SATA-baseret RAM drev. Dog var denne artikel på Kinesisk, så udover graferne fik man ikke så meget ud af den.

I mellemtiden er det så lykkedes AnandTech, at få fat i et eksemplar af dette kort. Dette er desuden den nyeste version af kortet, hvor man kan se at de har forbedret batteri tilslutningen siden Computex messen.

Inde i artiklen finder man også en masse nye informationer om kortet, hvor vi f.eks. nu ved at memory kontrolleren på kortet faktisk understøtter op til 8 GB RAM, men at Gigabyte's i-RAM kort kun understøtter 4 GB PC1600 DDR RAM. En anden stor skuffelse ved kortet er at det ikke understøtter ECC RAM, som ellers ville have sikret ens data bedre end almindelige unbuffered RAM. Gigabyte har desuden også oplyst at det pt. ikke er muligt at kører to af disse kort i RAID 0, pga. nogle stabilitets problemer.

De sidste informationer denne gang, er at der kun vil blive produceret 1000 stk. til at starte med, hvor disse vil få en pris på $150, og altså ikke $50 som Gigabyte oplyste ved Computex messen.

This year's Computex wasn't very different, except for one thing - when Gigabyte showed us their collection of goodies for the new year, we were actually quite interested in one of them. And after we posted about it, we found that quite a few of you all were very interested in it too. Gigabyte's i-RAM was an immediate success and it wasn't so much that the product was a success, but it was the idea that piqued everyone's interests.

Pretty much every time a faster CPU is released, we always hear from a group of users that are marveled by the rate at which CPUs get faster but loathe the sluggish rate that storage evolves. We've been stuck with hard disks for decades now, and although the thought of eventually migrating to solid state storage has always been there, it's always been so very distant. These days you can easily get a multi-gigabyte solid state drive if you're willing to spend the tens of thousands of dollars it costs to get one; prices actually vary from the low $1000s to the $100K range for solid state devices, obviously making them impractical for desktop users.

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