Gigabyte iRam - Boot Up Windows XP in Seconds
Filed in: Gadgets — June 9th, 2005
TAIPEI - Taiwanese hardware maker Giga-byte Technology has stumbled upon a faster way to boot up PCs based on Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system.
Giga-byte’s iRam is a PC add-in card with four DDR DRAM (double data rate dynamic RAM memory slots) that’s designed to be used as a PC drive. Because the iRam uses DRAM rather than a hard-disk to store information, data can be retrieved from the drive up to 60 times faster than is possible with a hard drive, according to Giga-byte, which showed the board at the Computex exhibition in Taipei this week.
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Price: $60(RM228) without DRAM (available in July)
This reminds me about RAMDisk in MS-DOS 6.0 age. RAM is used as temporary storage for faster access. iRAM is a larger version of RAMDisk. 
Will you spend few hundreds bucks to save some seconds on boot up Microsoft Windows?
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