Rocket RAID 2320 + 8 x Gigabyte I-RAM

[idioten112jan]

How to install I-Ram ?

[joesatube]

I commented on this video 2 years ago. I bought one of these and Lost ALL MY DATA on these things not once, not twice but three times. So gigabyte sucks (i've had one of their motherboards too and it failed as well). I'm not sure what's happening but obviously it needs power on at all times to keep the data on the units and even though it has a mini battery on board I think it must be junk because it didn't do it's job. SSD drives are much cheaper and stable than this.

[the14u36]

i had one of these 4 years ago. it was the fastest thing on the planet. sorry i ever sold it. even my latest state of the art pc. with 4 ocz vertex ssd raid 0 cant hold a candle.

[sajfen]

The rocketraid 2320 has 8 slots, guess hes running an i-ram in each of those. Very impressive setup dude. Must have cost you a fortune! =)

[kaboooom2000uk]

I looked at the picture for your setup lol, impressive. Did you use two motherboards? are you using one to power the additional cards, becuase im assuming you encountered my problem, where my motherboard just doesnt have enough ports for the I-rams, plus the raid controller? Correct me if im wrong. Fantastic work!! 5 stars easy

[damien77paris]

Nice :)

[Barbatolux]

Merci Damien [Nokytech] ;)

[zniesmaczony]

what was that Satch video you watched? ^^

[xXKentoXx]

its useless on win 95

[vd853]

I estimate this setup should cost almost $800?

[shbris]

double that at least, ddr1 ram is ridiculously expensive

[gernotsommler]

Wow. This looks sooo cool. I want this too! Exactly as you have it. Can you please post a tutorial with instuctions on how to set up the hardware, how to make Windows run on it and - this is the tricky one - where to buy these iram thingies, they seem not to be manufactured any more. Is there an DIMM RAM alternative to iram?

cheers

[Tixarn1]

The Gigabyte I-RAM card is a card in which you put the four DIMMs, you then put this into a PCI slot, solely for power and then connect it to the PC via regular SATA.

To set up an array like this you would need your choice of RAID controller on the PC you wish to use, and another motherboard for power.

[rofthorax]

How about a bigger power supply.. Like 1000W..

[Tixarn1]

You would put the RAID controller into your primary PC (the one which will use the RAID) and as many I-RAM cards into the other PCI slots, you would then put the rest into the other motherboard, however the SATA cables would still go into your RAID controller.

This would then provide all the power to the cards, using both motherboards however run all the SATA cables into the first boards RAID controller.

[Tixarn1]

XP would be installed on the array just as one would a normal hard disk, however data would be lost once they have been powered down simultaniously and their batteries have run dry.

[swsquish]

how do you connect two motherboards?

[Barbatolux]

Second motherboard is just present to power other irams but these are connected to first motherboard...

[AA9483]

this video was good

lets chat s2

[Barbatolux]

I received many questions, so here's few answers :

I used 2 motherboards (second one is just present to power IRam Cards) + PCI Risers and Extenders.

8 Irams are connected to HighPoint 2320 Controler (Raid 0) and PCI-E is overclocked (112 Mhz).

Look at my pictures beside my profil name to have a look to my machine.

Everything is so FAST !!!!!!!!!!

[hotfreshrider]

pix or it didn't happen

[First2ner]

Rofl, that is good speed, but what is the cost? And what is the size of this disk?

[Wozzko]

Barbatolux, what board are you plugging all the PCI cards into? I haven't heard of a motherboard with that many expansion slots!

Thanks, Richard.

[lecken1000]

It is very easy. You just use a second Tower with another mainboard in it only for powersupply via PCI ports.

So you just need an additional tower plus a mainboard with lots of PCI slots.

Best use a very old one.

[Hargak]

I've put 4 together before but I didn't use the ich chipset that it requests, i see you used another powered mobo to power the extras, I purchased a pci riser card to power the +5v pin hope you can email me sometime I have a few questions for you

[doclsdc]

Acutally he has the picture of the 8 Irams in his description (°_0)

[Zardoz66]

This is amazing, I would like to see the setup though...

[joesatube]

I don't think people understand what you've actually done. Why don't you show a video of the Eight IRAMs installed in your system?