*Review: Toms Hardware (
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/11/...ate_storage/)*
*Thanks to OpusP.Gladiator for the Submit.*
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2005 was the year of the RAM drive. Gigabyte and a smaller company called HyperOS released their storage products, which were both meant to replace the conventional hard drive (
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/11/...tate_storage/#) with blazing fast SDRAM. Both provided an exciting look to the future of performance storage products, as they blow away any other hard drive. Gigabyte's i-RAM (
http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/09/07/can_gigabyte/) was the faster solution, thanks to its SATA/150 interface, while the HyperDrive III was limited to UltraATA/100, but supported more memory. HyperOS wants to adjust the ranking with its fourth generation HyperDrive, which offers both SATA/150 and UltraATA/133 interfaces. HyperOS even calls its HyperDrive 4 the fastest internal hard disk (
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/11/...tate_storage/#) in the world.
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