PuRam

[Ssin]

Althought it sure is giong to cost ALOT it looks promising to me.
And IMO 2010 computers are going to be somehow like that. Future generations are going to laugh at us... "wow they actually used hard drives??"

Anyway how come everyone has a posts counter of -101? did I miss something while I was away from MURC's forum?

[High_Jumbllama]

MMM, bubble memory drives. :drools:

Sasq is playing a joke on us with the -101.

[Sasq]

me? play a joke? never....

[rylan]

Disk-on-chip is nothing new anyway.. we have embedded medical systems we sell at work that use those with an embeded OS. I sense a lot of smoke and mirrors with these guys.

[skinrock]

Especially when they overclock a 3.2 to 3.8, I see what you guys are getting at now. Besides, I'm designing my own, and it won't cost a quarter of that "Mach 3.8". However the $18000 monitor is tempting...lol

[Marshmallowman]

Diskless workstation?, what about the various linux live CD's, and if you say its not diskless then you can also find distro's that work from flash drives.

There is even a "lite" version of windows 95 that' will fit on a flash drive.

PU as in stinks I think.

Heh, my first Atari was a "diskless workstation"

[Jammrock]

I'm waiting for MRAM drives Non-volitile, more memory per square cm that SDRAM, cheaper to make and almost as fast as static RAM Me can't wait to have a 20 GB MRAM drive.

And they're not smoke and mirrors. They take not known technologies and combine them with not so well know technolgies and make a very marketable, albeit very expensive, package.

Jammrock

[Wombat]

"0% average CPU usage" means "We did a copy once, and let the computer sit idle for a week. That averages to 0%, rounded down." And even still, the drive type shouldn't change CPU usage much, that should be the controller's job.

[VJ]

Well, I just checked Cenatek's site:

http://www.cenatek.com/

They have the rocketdrive, which is an SDRAM based SSD drive; and apparently, they also link to Lieberman. So, does this mean the PU drive is actually a Cenatek Rocket drive ?

Wombat: That is a way of getting great averages...


Jörg

[TransformX]

Originally posted by Wombat
"0% average CPU usage" means "We did a copy once, and let the computer sit idle for a week. That averages to 0%, rounded down." And even still, the drive type shouldn't change CPU usage much, that should be the controller's job.

Haha, you're like so retro
I printed my data and then carved it into my HDD using hammer and a chisel. Now that's technology !

[dZeus]

Originally posted by VJ
Well, I just checked Cenatek's site:

http://www.cenatek.com/

They have the rocketdrive, which is an SDRAM based SSD drive; and apparently, they also link to Lieberman. So, does this mean the PU drive is actually a Cenatek Rocket drive ?

Wombat: That is a way of getting great averages...


Jörg

if it used SDRAM it wouldn't be non-volatile, would it?

[VJ]

Yep, but Cenatek has a link to Lieberman, and it results in the page where the pu-ram is described...


Jörg

[Wombat]

Originally posted by dZeus
if it used SDRAM it wouldn't be non-volatile, would it?

It is, somewhat. It powers itself off of the ATX connector somehow I think. But I know it has a battery on it. You can even move these things from one PCI slot to another without losing the data.

At any rate, you can turn the computer off, and turn it on later with the drive still holding the same information.

[Jammrock]

Probably a Lithium Ion rechargable battery pack to keep the SRAM in state. With an internal copy that would definately give you 8.5 GB/s transfer. As for 0% CPU usage ... can't say, never used a solid state HDD.

Still waiting for MRAM drives

[cbman]

I Read the maximum PC review on the machine your talking about... it didn't come with everything advertised (some problem with the PuRam drive...) but apparently they were impressed with what they got but also mentioned that it was fairly high priced for something that someone could put together with enough time and inclination (and cash) for less.

I'll see if I have the magazine at home still and if I do I'll copy the article and you guys can read it for yourselves