[geeks] DRAM-based SSD

nate at portents.com nate at portents.com
Wed Sep 17 16:04:45 CDT 2008


> Anyone know of a company selling DRAM-based SSDs?  I have a place to use
> one at work, where a DRAM-based SSD would thoroughly outperform a
> flash-based one.

A couple of years ago there was the Gigabyte i-RAM:

http://techreport.com/articles.x/9312

Not sure if it's still in production.

There are expensive, enterprise-grade SSD solutions with high bandwidth
and very high IOPS, and this is one company that's well considered in that
field (no experience with them myself, just heard of them):

http://www.fusionio.com/

- Nate



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