Comments on: DDRdrive X1 – RAM Based SSD http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/ddrdrive-x1-ram-based-ssd/ Geeky Gadgets - Gadgets, Geek Gadgets, Cool Gadgets, Technology News Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:34:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Christopher George http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/ddrdrive-x1-ram-based-ssd/comment-page-1/#comment-28543 Christopher George Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:41:31 +0000 http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/?p=14646#comment-28543 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 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

]]> By: SuperSparky http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/ddrdrive-x1-ram-based-ssd/comment-page-1/#comment-11451 SuperSparky Thu, 07 May 2009 17:23:29 +0000 http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/?p=14646#comment-11451 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. 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.

]]> By: DDRdrive X1 RAM Based SSD is Quick! http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/ddrdrive-x1-ram-based-ssd/comment-page-1/#comment-11369 DDRdrive X1 RAM Based SSD is Quick! Wed, 06 May 2009 10:22:51 +0000 http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/?p=14646#comment-11369 [...] 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 [...] [...] 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 [...]

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