Comments on: Viking Modular 25GB SLC SATADIMM SSD Review https://www.thessdreview.com/our-reviews/viking-modular-25gb-slc-satadimm-ssd-review/ The Worlds Dedicated SSD Education and Review Resource | Mon, 08 Apr 2013 07:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Density https://www.thessdreview.com/our-reviews/viking-modular-25gb-slc-satadimm-ssd-review/#comment-15193 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 07:55:00 +0000 https://thessdreview.com/?p=10253#comment-15193 I can only agree. This product is simply ridiculous. A SATA DOM module takes less space. And using a RAM slot just to draw power… well… what’s next? Using a CPU socket to power SSD?

]]> By: analog https://www.thessdreview.com/our-reviews/viking-modular-25gb-slc-satadimm-ssd-review/#comment-13225 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:01:00 +0000 https://thessdreview.com/?p=10253#comment-13225 This is indeed somewhat ridiculous, why swap in a potential 32GB of +3GB/sec r/w (300k iops) in for a lousy 25-400GB 30000iops. It makes no sense, the only thing I could understand it if you we’re to design sas ram drives in ram format but even then the using-memory-banks-as-placeholder argument holds up.

]]> By: Robin https://www.thessdreview.com/our-reviews/viking-modular-25gb-slc-satadimm-ssd-review/#comment-12919 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 23:23:00 +0000 https://thessdreview.com/?p=10253#comment-12919 Looked like expendable RAM at first, but the RAM slot is in this situation just a power connector?
Seems kind of wasted as most high-end beefy servers use a lot of RAM, especially in the virtualization industry that we see nowadays.
Besides that, what advantage has this SSD on DIMM size?
It basicaly wastes a RAM slot instead of a SATA connector, and since we have molex and sata splitters a SSD can always be connected with a normal power cable.

Or am I wrong and is the RAM slot used for anything more then power draw?

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