I worked with hw support, so I know what you mean
My current drives has 10 or 15k rpm, I don't remember exactly, not that important with my Adaptec 128MB controller.
Resource demanding application. So some form of boost is a good to have.
May not be useful for an every day user who is only check their mail's, but those individuals was not on my mind.
But for 'private' individuals, like 'gamers' would also be a good news.
Think about web-, email- etc. servers
This is not an ad but take a look, so you see what I mean:
http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/products/C ... SAS-52445/x8 PCI-E, 1.2GB/s. 512MB memory etc....
I will use 4 HDD so the memory will be 'shared'. But this is the best solution so far. Not the cheapest solution, but...
Yes, new firmware is probably needed. I'm not looking forward to this...
The reason why I'm asking around is that I don't really have time to make this or do this from scratch because I don't know much about HDD's. Somewhere in the future when I have some time off, I 'll try to figure this out if no one else made it or has some good proof if this would work or not and how and why.
I guess the only way to find out is to do it... But the last time I built something was when the PCI was still new.
So I'm a bit rusty
Why am I pushing this question? Let me blow this idea out of proportion...
Memories are getting cheaper. USB-memories has now 8GB... tomorrow 16-32-64GB?....
OS independent...
If it would be POSSIBLE to use 8GB cache
, how much less 'reading' will be? Not a good news for the manufacturers! Longer lifetime?...
No need for controllers. Bad news for Adaptexxxx...
Taking advantage of the SATA-3 interface...
I can go on and on and on.....
Let me know if I'm wrong
I wrote about the new Intel i7 processor. Imagine, i7 Extreme Quadra Core...
That's 4 core with Hyper-Thread... 8 threads in one processor? Sounds nice
But most of the time the processor will be idle. So why are we spending more and more money on a new processor when the real bottleneck now is the HDD?
Most of the people believes that those 3Gb/s is the read/write. Not to mention the difference between Gbit and GByte.
I heard this once: "Wow
, 3Gb/s! I can copy a DVD in 2 sec!"
If you would have such a HDD, with a large cache, would it be 'useful' for you?