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... Well, considering that we had to upgrade one of the computers in our lab, we recently purchased and I-RAM to run the first tests. ... Together with this, the MRAM requires less memory refresh than the capacitor based DRAMs and its theoretical velocity competes with that of the static RAM, the main...