4x I-Ram Raid 0 (Gigabyte) HDTune+TestLab 2008

[the14u36]

its 5 years old bud

[korgpadude]

hi where u bought i ram?

[schmidtbag]

with linux you can use your normal system memory as a ram drive for free, which performs even faster. the only downside is you can't boot off the memory itself

[oc5nsli341nforce4]

Personally how fast is a single iRam since I am looking for a easy way out when it comes to page file?

[Netzblockierer]

Playing with Windows Media player is not a proof of realtime! You CAN excange audio line and you can play it slower/faster (see extensions!)

[SutkasFan]

what is I-RAM ???

[madzane94]

so how do u install windows on just 4gb of storage.. i don't get this iram thing.. some1 explain plz

thanks

[Barbatolux]

@madzane94,

With XP, you can install it, OR : You install onto a hard drive then you "Ghost it" et restore the image onto the i-ram...

For Win Seven, i actually use 4 i-rams (4x4 MB) -> 16GB, so i use 2x Hard drives in raid 0 to install Windows Seven, then i clean unsused files, save the image and restore onto Raid 0 I-rams !

Speed and access times are impressive :)

Last thing : I know that SSD become Cheaper than I-ram but remember that I-rams have access times twice faster than SSD...

[volcanofg]

i had a question, if my mother board uses the ICH10R chipset and i wanted to do a raid array, do i still need to get a raid card and if not why do some people prefer raid cards

[sajfen]

If you have a setup that will exceed ~500MB/s you need a raid card or else the ICH10R wont keep up.

[volcanofg]

thanks very helpful

[smifis2K]

you don't but it uses the computers cpu power. a raid card has it's own cpu onboard.

[akrazeeblue]

you definitely do not need a raid card, you should be able to run any form of RAID that is out there. the reason some people like to use RAID cards is because certain RAID cards offer a small performance boost over the built in RAID card. but with the new ich10r chipset, there is so little performance increase, its just a waste of money to get a RAID card unless you were connecting like 8 SSD's

[kaboooom2000uk]

Brilliant, i wish my computer were a lot bigger, there are 16 port sata raid controlers availible, it would be incredible to see that in action. nice video, I knew someone had to try it.

[gillimaster]

Have you had any problems with the ram drives? I was considering buying some for our test lab to run some server applications

[Barbatolux]

Hi, No problem with iram (except that batteries keep my OS alive for 10 hours now (more before)).

I still have 5 irams plugged in my rr2320 controler.

I bought my first iram 2 years ago and i still love it.

Iram is perfect for server applications (small files access or really short access times).

[vcval]

is TestLab 2008 in english

[dwergaap]

Defrag on a I-ram is useless lol.

There's litterally no accestime involved so why bother moving the files around.

[Barbatolux]

Just to show you how fast access times are... ;)

Moving hundreds files takes few secondes.

[BongDon420]

comment me back

seen it yesterday! lets chat dW

[addiktion13]

Ram failure? :S

[mcxddd]

How to make the 4 of them to run in parallel ?

Is that thing stable?

Any handy software that can automatically make a disk image out of the i-RAM and put it back to the harddisk?

[Barbatolux]

Use your Motherboard Raid options.

To backup my irams, I use Norton Ghost.

Yes, It is stable (as you can see Windows XP works fine with it).

[Chupacabras222]

What is the music used in that video?

[Barbatolux]

Music is : ACDC Long way to the TOP.

[Chupacabras222]

Thanks buddy ;)

[rachparov]

Le test de testlab est impressionant, t'as vista? Je croyais qu'il pesait 16 go? Ca rentre dessus? Ca vaux le coup la même configue que la tienne?

[Barbatolux]

ça marche terrible question réactivité du système : Temps d'accès 0.01ms et débit supérieurs à 400MB par seconde.

[n00bstorm]

Hello what is that last program you runned before the end on the video? Thanks!

[Barbatolux]

O&o Defrag

[polypolyallstar]

Es alucinante!! pero defragmentando un disco hecho a base de memoria de acceso aleatorio me sentiría como cuando muevo un raton mirando a una pantalla que no coincide... aunque mejora un poco el rendimiento, el cuello de botella está en el bus SATA1. Yo lo haré alguna vez...

[polypolyallstar]

En caso de desconexión total prolongada del sistema (10 horas aprox.) tienes copias de back-up de la particion del SO. Punto débil...

[silvaa20013]

what's defrag program is this?

[Artuir82]

It looks like O&O defrag. It's my personal favorite - very very thorough.

[Artuir82]

Hah! I nailed that and hadn't even read the description yet. I'm a sad, sad human being.

[Barbatolux]

O&o Defrag

[TrojaNS2K]

nice song!

[Steffenevers]

is iram free? and if i have vista, then does it speed up my computer?

[xaces]

iram is like an extra hard drive, its run off of 4 sticks of RAM, and is put into the PCI slots, no its not free, and it shouldn't make anything faster, only if you store data in it, it should make finding it faster

[Chupacabras222]

i-Ram is hardware. so it is not free ;)

[Barbatolux]

More details :

Motherboard : Asus P5K Premium (ICH9R).

SATA Mode : 4xGigabyte I-Ram card using Raid 0 (Stripe 4k), 3Gbytes on each card (total 12Gigabytes to boot my system).

Processor : Q6600@3.6Mhz.

[Barbatolux]

Fonctionnement de 4 Iram(s) en Raid 0 sous Windows XP