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(More customer reviews)I am an extreme enthusiast IT.
My personal computer has 2 of these in it. After a lot a debating the issue of SSD's, trying a few, I went RAM drive with the ANS-9010 with 8x4GB for a total of 32GB RAM. (the ANS-9010B has only 6 slots for RAM and is lower speed due to no built in hardware RAID controller, the ANS-9010BE is the same as the 9010B but in an eSATA drive form factor.)
Pros: SUPREMELY FAST IO + Transfer rates (400 MB/s +), will NEVER wear out like an SLC/MLC card will. Use it 10 years from now in a next gen computer with another SATA card (or adapter) and get even BETTER speeds out of it! You will NOT find ANY SLC/MLC cards that can claim that; they all wear out over time reducing speed/latency performance continuously from day 1 until they stop working. Significantly lower cost point versus other competing brands that use RAM. (I paid 345$ for ANS, 60$ per stick RAM * 8, for end cost just about 900$ after taxes!)
Cons: Cost per MB up front. I don't count the heat/power of approx 10watts per RAM stick as an issue as similar performance from any other type device isn't possible without many more issues!
My Config: I have my supercomputer Win7 R2 x64 w16GB RAM, using a 4 disk Hardware RAID 0 as the boot drive and work drive for large file or lengthy tasks (up to 1TB); I use the 64GB RAID 0+0 (2 ANS-9010's 64GB RAM total using the built in hardware RAID 0 output through 2 SATA ports each going then through motherboard Intel ICH10R software RAID0) as my Swap disk, temp files disk, and relatively small projects disk (remapped windows environment variables to use it as temp files disk). Finally I have a Hardware RAID 5 8x1.5 TB solid formatted GPT 12TB array (9.55 useable) for long term storage. The benefits are VERY apparent in a windows environment. First of all, Windows was never designed to work without a swap file, so you MUST have one. I set just a 1GB swap file that is allowed to jump up to 16GB if needed on only the RAM drive array. No other drives have a swap file and it makes a notable difference in system performance (I have 16GB system RAM, not associated with the RAIDed RAM disks)
Want to see MY transfer diagrams? :P
With 1 ANS9010 setup as 2Drive RAID0, I pull 80,000+ IO's/sec @ 4k random, while still being able to transfer 400+ MB/s for large streaming files. 25% CPU of E8400 clocked to 3.68GHz.
With 2 ANS9010 setup as 4Drive RAID0+0, I pull 27,000+ IO's/sec @ 4k random, while still being able to transfer 670+ MB/s for large streaming files. 52% CPU of E8400 clocked to 3.68GHz.
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ACARD ANS9010 RAM Disk is a solid state disk make up DDR2 memory modules, for faster than the traditional hard drives and flash drives. With the speedy random access rate and shorter access time, RAM Disk is definitely suitable for graphics designs and database systems. It also supports a CF slot for data backup / restore to prevent data lost.Features:*Supports up to 64GB amount of memory. *Supports ECC/Non-ECC unbuffer DDR2 400/533/667/800. *Automatic data backup/restore between DDR2 memory and CF card.*Come with a Li-Ion rechargeable battery.*Front panel LED indicators battery capacity, power status, SATA ports activity, CF backup/restore status.*Bootable, no device driver need.
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