There was a piece of consumer hardware that I used for a very short time called the iRam. You basically got a battery backed RAM based disk (presented over SATA

There was a piece of consumer hardware that I used for a very short time called the iRam. You basically got a battery backed RAM based disk (presented over SATA) that could saturate just about any application you wanted. Was expensive as hell and only went up to 4GB, but I would love to have something similar today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-RAM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-RAM