Geekery

[ogden]

Originally Posted by thor

Can't beat the access times with solid state.

Flash storage is old hat though. RAM discs are where it's at!

RAM disks are where it's at right until you want the data to be available across reboots or power cycles. As I said up there, great for ephemeral data, not quite so great for persistent data.

Also requires a 64bit OS to do effectively, particularly with Windows, where the memory model goes seriously screwy over 3GB on 32bit systems.

Surely a half decent raid setup would be preferbale to hoiking out 6 large ones??

I'm feeling quite thick...

Speaking of Geeks, the company I work for has just sponsored this lot: http://www.team-dignitas.org/

Professional gamers..... how do I get a job like that?

[the_lone_wolf]

before you all wet yourselves i'd read this article

as has been said, fast access times but slow sustained transfer rates

i'll stick to my raptors for now, more storage at a 5th of the price

I prefer to spend money on pointless bike enhancements personally so long as my PC can load my dirty mpegs I really don't give a monkeys. But I'm sure if i was into computers I would have to have one of these as it seems completely pointless and over priced!