ACard ANS-9010 Ramdisk Review

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[dguy6789]

Somewhat interesting. I'd say it's still a case of too little too late though, like every ramdisk drive before it. $379 isn't worth it when you still have to buy separate memory and the capacity won't be even remotely comparable to anything that costs as much as it does. Superfetch in Vista and Windows 7 makes many tasks perform like they would if they were on a ramdisk already.

 

[rivan]

Interesting, but given it appears to be totally limited by the SATA interface, why not use PCIe?

 

[mmntech]

Seems to be tapping out the SATA bus. Needs a faster connection. These things have been around for awhile and have always been hugely impractical. The batteries they use aren't fool proof either. No way it could replace a flash SSD or HDD. I guess I could see some advantages for professional work such as moving large HD video files, but even then the limited amount of storage is such a barrier that it's best to just use high capacity SSDs or SAS drives.