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... The volatility problem associated to RAM memories is solved with the constant feed that it receives from the board through the PCI port. ... Even if there is a blackout, the I-RAM even has a small battery that can hold for some time.