securitybreach Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 PC makers do all kinds of things to save space inside their cases, but this is a new one to us: Apacer is apparently sampling sticks of DDR3 desktop RAM that include slots for M.2 SSD add-in boards and CFast CompactFlash cards, allowing you to mount storage devices directly to your RAM rather than using slots on the motherboard. The slots will still use the SATA III interface to transfer data—they're just mounted to the RAM and they draw power through the RAM slot. These sticks will support all three lengths of M.2 SSD boards (2242, 2260, and 2280). That's especially useful because, as AnandTech points out, only one mini-ITX desktop motherboard can directly support full-length M.2 boards. Full-length M.2 boards are necessary to accommodate higher storage capacities—currently available drives top out at 512GB, but 1TB drives are on the horizon. http://arstechnica.c...-memory-sticks/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenditman Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Unfortunate that they will still need to be connected by SATA interface. If they would connect thru the RAM/PCI interface they would be screaming fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted August 7, 2014 Author Share Posted August 7, 2014 Well they do have PCI ssd hard drives Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenditman Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Well they do have PCI ssd hard drives And those blow away all the SATA ones.Speed and price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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