What is "i-ram"

The i-RAM is a solid-state storage device produced by Gigabyte and released in June 2005. It has four DDR RAM DIMM slots, and a connection via a SATA port enables a PC to see the i-RAM as a hard disk drive, which can also be made bootable. The SATA interface limits available bandwidth to a maximum sustained throughput of 150 MB/s, but allows a latency of 0.1 ms.

As the DRAM is a volatile memory, an integrated battery allows the contents of DRAM to be preserved for a limited amount of time after the device's power supply is interrupted.