What is the name of the iron?

Question

RAM

I didn’t write anything else in the headline, I hope the iron workers will get here anyway.
Somewhere I heard or saw a pci board with ddr connectors that works like a regular hard drive. Interested in the name of the subject and comparison with ssd, if any.

Answer 1

Choose the name
i-RAM
GC-RAMDISK
DDR-based hard drive
Here is a description and comparison by the way - www.ixbt.com/storage/gigabyte-iram-p1.shtml

Answer 2

There are also such ssd options connected via pci-express www.nix.ru/autocatalog/ssd_ocz/OCZ_OCZSSDPX1RVD0120_Revo_Drive_PCIExpress_SSD_PCIEx4_MLC_101583.html

Answer 3

comparison with SSD is twofold
1. it works much faster
2. when the power is turned off, all data is deleted

Answer 4

It, thanks.

Answer 5

by the way. I'm interested in the topic and I'm trying to find fresh versions of such hardware on DDR2 and inexpensive memory modules, but I can't find anything.
It turns out they don't produce this anymore?
And while I was googling, I found another technology - long forgotten.
To organize a disk in the computer's RAM, of course, the motherboard must support 4-8GB in order to allocate more for the disk, from the shortcomings - there is no battery and it all depends on the stability of the OS.
interesting to see graphs of the speed of such a device