>> ^Deano:

Here's an alternative I'm going to buy for around £300 all in that provides a solid state DDR drive that plugs in via SATA.
http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/07042003/hardware.htm
I already use their software to provide multiple windows systems which works very well but the disk bottleneck is the main issue on any pc you use.


>> ^14703:

Here is the actual manufacturer of those hyperos cards. Acard's ANS-9010 Ram Drive. If you are running a server and want even more performance, I like this card that plugs into a pci express slot Fusion-io's iodrive
Of course the iodrive costs a couple thousand for a some 80GB drive, but it's spec'd to be equivalent in transfer, write and seek time to a bunch of raid SSD's. These are just NAND clusters that beat the speed by acting like a large RAID of small flash memory. It uses software/hardware to overcome some limitation of the number of read/write of NAND and memory keeping the data safe. As it ages, it gets less storage GBs but stay just as fast. It utilizes the bandwidth of the pci-e (x4 iirc).
The Acard ans-9010 ram drive (aka hyperos card) also do raid on a single card which does help a bit when trying to saturate some SATA bandwidth. Check out this comparison for the Acard at the tech report. The input/output benchmarks put a bunch of the other disks down. But, on efficiency, X-25m SSD's kicked the acard's ass because it doesn't use RAM meaning lower consumption/heat and does webserver expectionally well.
Intel X-25m SSD's in raid would prove to be a good combination that won't break the bank as much the more exotic options. After getting a bit intoxicated with the idea of the iodrive and acard ans-9010, it turns out what I want isn't exactly what I need, at least not at that price and definately not for my gaming. All SSDs have the advantage of seek times. The only disadvantage I see with X-25m's, as with other similar flash SSDs are the write times. Reads are hardly ever the problem especially with these built for performance disks.
The guy who does budget will kill you after seeing how much your 6TB Samsung SSD Awesomeness cost to just play with user-end desktop apps. Save the big bucks for the servers that bring in the moolah and server the clients, and even then we can't all prematurely splurge on sexy new toys.
<div><div style="margin: 10px; overflow: auto; width: 80%; float: left; position: relative;" class="convoPiece"> Deano said:<img style="margin: 4px 10px 10px; float: left; width: 40px;" src="http://static1.videosift.com/avatars/d/Deano-s.jpg" onerror="ph(this)"><div style="position: absolute; margin-left: 52px; padding-top: 1px; font-size: 10px;" class="commentarrow">◄</div><div style="padding: 8px; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 2px; min-height: 30px;" class="nestedComment box">Here's an alternative I'm going to buy for around £300 all in that provides a solid state DDR drive that plugs in via SATA. </div></div></div>

let me see if i understand you both.

Deano, this device is just a device that holds ram, but instead of using it for temporary stoarge, allows for primary storage instead. enough to run the OS and maybe more if you have enough ram on you.

14703, It looks like what you are saying is this device is just a huge chunk of Ram for in between HDD and RAM. except it would not be able to move any files???

This video has been seconded as a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof seconded with isdupe by geo321.

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by SlipperyPete. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/This-Danish-horse-could-kick-your-butt-at-DDR

Unfortunatly it is a dupe of this: http://videosift.com/video/This-Danish-horse-could-kick-your-butt-at-DDR 3,5 years ago... sorry mate...

DDR ruined this mix for me forever. lol.

Robin Williams is a major long term gamer, and not just video games.

He plays the Warhammer table top miniature game - he apparently has a massive Ork army.

For what it is worth, he used to frequent the Games Workshop store at the Metreon in San Francisco for his Warhammer fix and sometimes go across to the Portal One video arcade there as well where he would play DDR with his kids.

A lot of work for something so unfunny and historically ridiculous. Some of the most popular kid shows in Germany today were shows created in the East (DDR). Not to mention the horrrrribbble... accents. Maybe I missed something.

ponceleon

"The whole point of videogames is to relax after a day of doing what it is that you do during the day. "
..........................................................................................................
I don't think a game has to be relaxing/passive to be enjoyable.

Just depends what typ of game you want to play , its wrong to stipulate that all games have to be passave , in the same way it would be wrong to stipulate that all games have to be active . I find playing DDR , rock band doing some races in LFS/R factor with a g25 wheel quite relaxing but very active.

unfortunately The real problem with the Wii is that it dosenot provid a good mix and allot of the games on wii are inapropreatly active (Ie games that are more enjoyable when played in a passive control fashion) and also don't work with the controls particularly well. ( as the wii mote is actually a pretty shitty interface if you want to use a degree of skill/fine movements not spaz out )

Unfortunately We are going to have to put up with this shit for a good number of years.

Whats nice to see is that we have stuff like the novent falcon for the pc , and FFB wheels like the G25 these sorts of devices enable real emersoin and feed back from games, And fingers crossed within the next 5-10 years O.LED might get to the price point where we can finally have full 360 headsets that r comfortable and cheep to use.

I started wondering what was the point of playing DDR on a keyboard, but then I remembered I sort of enjoy whacking colored buttons and pretending it's a guitar.

>> ^EDD:
>> ^Farhad2000:
Would love to hear what he actually liked... but of course he wouldn't corner himself into something like that...

He actually did say a couple of positive things about Team Ico's Last Guardian. And the Silent Hill game.

Last Guardian is just a rehash of Ico and Colossus game. He's totally on point about one of the leads dying.

And come on. It's pretty obvious from his previous reviews that he is completely biased when it comes to anything called Silent Hill. I bet he would love Silent Hill DDR if it was made.

DDR freaks pwned.

>> ^Deano:
Here's an alternative I'm going to buy for around £300 all in that provides a solid state DDR drive that plugs in via SATA.

Here is the actual manufacturer of those hyperos cards. Acard's ANS-9010 Ram Drive. If you are running a server and want even more performance, I like this card that plugs into a pci express slot Fusion-io's iodrive

Of course the iodrive costs a couple thousand for a some 80GB drive, but it's spec'd to be equivalent in transfer, write and seek time to a bunch of raid SSD's. These are just NAND clusters that beat the speed by acting like a large RAID of small flash memory. It uses software/hardware to overcome some limitation of the number of read/write of NAND and memory keeping the data safe. As it ages, it gets less storage GBs but stay just as fast. It utilizes the bandwidth of the pci-e (x4 iirc).

The Acard ans-9010 ram drive (aka hyperos card) also do raid on a single card which does help a bit when trying to saturate some SATA bandwidth. Check out this comparison for the Acard at the tech report. The input/output benchmarks put a bunch of the other disks down. But, on efficiency, X-25m SSD's kicked the acard's ass because it doesn't use RAM meaning lower consumption/heat and does webserver expectionally well.

Intel X-25m SSD's in raid would prove to be a good combination that won't break the bank as much the more exotic options. After getting a bit intoxicated with the idea of the iodrive and acard ans-9010, it turns out what I want isn't exactly what I need, at least not at that price and definately not for my gaming. All SSDs have the advantage of seek times. The only disadvantage I see with X-25m's, as with other similar flash SSDs are the write times. Reads are hardly ever the problem especially with these built for performance disks.

The guy who does budget will kill you after seeing how much your 6TB Samsung SSD Awesomeness cost to just play with user-end desktop apps. Save the big bucks for the servers that bring in the moolah and server the clients, and even then we can't all prematurely splurge on sexy new toys.

Here's an alternative I'm going to buy for around £300 all in that provides a solid state DDR drive that plugs in via SATA.

http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/07042003/hardware.htm

I already use their software to provide multiple windows systems which works very well but the disk bottleneck is the main issue on any pc you use.