RAMDrive for data?

[Sam DeathWalker]

LoL

https://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/07042003/purchase.htm

HyperDrive4 16GB max £1395.00 ($2,712) ...

[Sarduci]

Fast, cheap, or reliable - pick 2.

[Wilbur]

Well
Technically those drives are 1 out of 3.

[Gadaí]

Or..... http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=354473

Solid State HDD - faster then Raid if the press is to be believed.

[wowphreak]

The older Solid State HDD drives where slower the yer average hard drive while the newer ones are about twice as fast,
Memory still whole lot faster.

The hyperdrive4 thing looks cool but damm its pricey

[HPAVC]

I brought a Imation ssd drive home (pro7500) and used it for a symlink ./Wow/Data on the machine I am trying to work on consolidating 5boxing machines to. Definate speed increase loading, zoning, flying I would say. That's about it and all I would expect, this machine also has a Killer M1.

Likely overkill, but with the money people seem to dump on graphics cards not so much. I would choose the Killer first.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Thats not out of hand, $313 for 16G.

Of course these are nand flash drives I can get this for $181:

Mfr Part Number: FUM15GK18H
Capacity: 15 GB
Form Factor: 1.8 inch
Connector: Micro-SATA
NAND Flash: MLC
Performance:
Sequential Read Rate: 120 MB/s (max)
Sequential Write Rate Low Cap/High Cap: 60/80 MB/s (max)
Access Time: 0.1 ms
Shock: 1500G (operating)
Vibration: 16G (operating)
Operating temperature: Industrial: 0°C to +70°C
Reliability:
MTBF: >1,000,000 hours
Data reliability: Built-in EDC/ECC function
Patent pending Wear-leveling algorithms
Endurance:
Read: Unlimited
Write/Erase: >8.22 years @ 50GB write-erase /day
Power Supply: Vcc= 3.3V ±5%
Dimensions: 78.5 x 54 x 5 mm
Package: Complete metal housing
Warranty: 1 year

This is $292:

Mfr Part Number: FTD15GK25H
Capacity: 15 GB
Form Factor: 2.5 inch
Interface: SATA2
NAND Flash: SLC
Performance:
Sequential Read Rate: 120 MB/s (max)
Sequential Write Rate Low Cap/High Cap: 80/100 MB/s (max)
Access Time: 0.1 ms
Shock: 1500G (operating)
Vibration: 16G (operating)
Operating temperature: Industrial: 0°C to +70°C
Reliability:
MTBF: >1,000,000 hours
Data reliability: Built-in EDC/ECC function
Patent pending Wear-leveling algorithms
Endurance:
Read: Unlimited
Write/Erase: >82.19 years @ 50GB write-erase /day
Power Supply: Vcc= 5V ±5%
Dimensions: 69.85 x 100.2 x 9.50 mm
Package: Complete metal housing
3 year warranty


Here is the Raptor X for comparison:

Hard Drive
Form Factor 3.5" x 1/3H
Capacity 150 GB
Interface Type Serial ATA-150
Buffer Size 16 MB
Performance
Drive Transfer Rate 150 MBps (external) / 102 MBps (internal)
Seek Time 4.6 ms (average) / 10.2 ms (max)
Track-to-track Seek Time 0.4 ms
Average Latency 2.99 ms
Spindle Speed 10000 rpm


If your raptor is defrag and its only doing the .4ms track-track seek and not loading a ton of tiny files it would seem its 150MB sequetial read is faster then the SSD 120MB sequetial read. And the raptor write times are almost 2X as fast.