DDRdrive X1 – RAM Based SSD
Some of our readers will remember the Fusion-ioDrive Duo that we featured on the site back in March, well it looks like another manufacturer is after the title of the World’s fastest hard drive, with the launch of the DDRdrive X1.
The DDRdrive X1 comes with 4GB of RAM, and 4GB of flash memory all in a PCIe drive, all your data is stored in the 4GB of RAM, and then backed up to the 4GB SSD, when the PC is turned on or off the data is then transferred to and from the SSD to the memory.
There are no details on the exact read / write speeds, but I suspect this is going to be one seriously fast way to store your data.
The DDRdrive X1 will go on sale for around $1,495.
Tags: Gadgets, PC Hardware
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May 6th, 2009 at 10:22 am
[...] PC is on allows data to be moved extremely quickly. However, there is one snag with it… the DDRdrive X1 will currently cost you $1495 when launched. It does show what we could be seeing standard in a few [...]
May 7th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Plain and simply not worth $1495. A 32GB FLASH is $50 now days, and 4GB of RAM is dirt cheap (so is 32GB). Having a battery backed up FPGA based device (for the smarts) with a 32GB flash card would certainly cost less than this useless piece of …
You’d do better investing in gold or silver. At least there you wouldn’t be throwing your money away.
September 27th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
The DDRdrive X1 was singularly designed to target IOPS intensive applications while setting a new standard in performance, power, and price.
In other words, a product exclusively targeted for the enterprise market, i.e. not the consumer market.
What’s the difference?
Four letters – IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second).
The DDRdrive X1 is the highest performing (up to 300,000+ IOPS), most power efficient (33uW/IOPS) and lowest price (0.005 $/IOPS) internal storage device in existence.
One would have to purchase 26+ Intel X25-E’s to match the 512B Random Write IOPS performance of the DDRdrive X1.
For a significant class of applications (ZFS ZIL, transaction logs…) that are capacity constrained, we are an extremely potent and unique solution.
The drive for speed,
Christopher George
Founder/CTO
DDRdrive LLC