I-RAM, M-RAM: Good Bye to Hard Drives? by Marcelo Reyes
A couple of weeks ago, one of my lab associates made a comment about the advantages of the I-RAM and its speed with respect to the hard drive. What is an I-RAM? I asked. Simple. They are a bank of DDR memories that are used as a hard drive. They are powered through a PCI port and use a SATA... Different to conventional Technologies of RAM memory chips, the data is not stored by electrical charges of current flow, but by means of magnetic storage elements. ... At the same time, while I was doing some research on I-RAMs I ran into some information about a new concept, the M-RAM (Magnetic...