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I don't know about SATA drive or anything recent but there was at least one device by Gigabyte called the i-RAM that let you put DDR1 on a card and boot off it.

• heelix 4y ago
  I think I had something similar, back in the DDR1 days. Mine was in a 5.25" format about the size of a CD-ROM. It was able to get closer to the SATA bandwidth max than anything I could afford with a RAID array of 10k drives. The IOPS were amazing, at the time. Had a battery backup and would cache to conventional disk. Was great for some DB operations.... with the understanding that it was not ECC ram and was a bit volitional. Main issue was the capacity. SSDs that came onto the market were a match for speed and PCIe drives crushed those I/O speeds again, without all the hassle.
• rasz 4y ago
  There was also RamSan https://www.superssd.com/products/ramsan-400/ https://www.superssd.com/products/ramsan-400/ https://www.superssd.com/success/ccpgames.html https://www.superssd.com/success/ccpgames.html I/Os Per Second 400,000 Capacity 32-128 GB Bandwidth 3000 MB per second There is one "untested" on ebay at $800, 64GB model was $72K when new in 2007. Today comparable drive is something like "Verbatim 256GB Vi3000 PCIe Gen 3.0 X4 NVMe M.2 2280 Internal SSD" $38.89 with free shipping from Amazon.
  • antisthenes 4y ago
    It's absolutely mind-boggling that a tiny NVME M.2 drive can now easily match this performance.