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More like 2014-2015, the Allone Cloud Disk: https://www.thessdreview.com/daily-news/latest-buzz/allone-cloud-disk-drive-101-reaches-half-mil-iops-computex-2015

• justsomehnguy 4y ago
  One off device by a company no longer traceable, with an outlandish price (as one comment pointed - they probably wanted a part of FusionIO pie) but only with a two slots for SO-DIMM? Dead from the start. If there was a (fulfilled) demand than there would be more devices like this, but... by 2012 the problem of a fast storage was solved by throwing loads of SSDs in some SAN (eg 3PAR 7xxx series) and of course enterprise sector preferred volatility and scalability, of which RAM-drives has none. Same with enthusiast market, WD Raptors[4] for a "fast" low/mid-tier, SSD for the fast tier. Just to be sure I checked when OCZ-VERTEX3, which is still running in T440 as a system drive, was anounced - it was ~Feb 2011. In 120Gb and 240Gb versions. It took some time to dig up the prices (I don't remember nor the prices nor the amount, heck, a decade ago): > The price of high-end 2GB DDR3 (double data rate, third generation) DRAM modules declined to US$25 in the first half of November, down 46 percent from its peak of US$46.50 in the first half of this year, according to DRAMeXchange. [0] Nov 2010 > G-Skill is offering a value DDR3 kit for $36 USD and Crucial sells their own value RAM for $34.99 over at Newegg. Considering a bit more than 3 years ago (Aprill 22, 2008 via the Way Back Machine’s snapshot of Newegg), a 4GB (2x2GB) kit of G-Skill DDR3 RAM went for $279.99, or about $560 for an equivalent amount of RAM today (8 GB 2×4 GB for $36 versus two 4 GB 2×2 GB kits for $560)! [1] Nov 2011 So even if you were somehow a visionary and would see the price drop a year or two before (ie ~2009)... at 2011 a single 8Gb stick was ~$50, so with $250 you could only get 32Gb (IF the RAM drive card was $50! and it wans't!), compared to $250 for 120Gb of Vertex 3. [2] Strange visionary who would see a DDR3 price drop, but not SSDs. I paid way less than $250 for that drive, because I bought it somewhere in 2012-2013: > Just ordered a OCZ Vertex 3 120GB after shipping, taxes and Rebate came to $87.00, ... [4] Apr 2012 [0] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2752016/dram-prices-to-keep-falling-through-the-first-half-of-2011.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2752016/dram-prices-to... [1] https://pcper.com/2011/11/ddr3-ram-now-at-all-time-low-prices-becoming-extremely-affordable/ https://pcper.com/2011/11/ddr3-ram-now-at-all-time-low-price... [2] https://www.storagereview.com/review/ocz-vertex-3-review-240gb https://www.storagereview.com/review/ocz-vertex-3-review-240... [3] https://hardforum.com/threads/ocz-vertex-3-120-any-good-87-new.1688824/ https://hardforum.com/threads/ocz-vertex-3-120-any-good-87-n... [4] it's quite telling what the last models were announced in 2012 and then quietly disappeared a mere year later: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/1tb-velociraptors-discontinued.1386540/ https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/1tb-velociraptors-di...