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Western Digital has made a version of their Raptor 150 GB disk with a window. This is very neat; as far as I know previously, no one has been able to mod a window to a hard disk larger than 40 GB.
Of course, it comes with a $50 premium over the normal disk… No doubt targeted to well-off gamers.
Anandtech has a review of Gigabyte’s i-RAM card that they had debuted at Comdex. It’s a card that you can place conventional desktop DDR memory into that fits into a PCI slot, from which it only draws power, and then connect via SATA to your computer. It then asks as a real disk, but based off of memory. Cheap solid state storages for the masses.
The benchmarks are interesting; the performance increase is nowhere near as to be expected. It’s flat out lousy, at least for how little the storage is and how much it costs.
