The article doesn't say how much DDR3 memory the drive has. In any case once it fills up, won't writes revert to hard drive speed?
Buffalo herds DDR3 RAMs into DriveStation's spinning rust corrals
Storage hardware maker Buffalo has given its latest drives a hefty DDR3 RAM cache boost, putting them on par with flash memory's data access times, they claim. The 2TB and 3TB DriveStation DDR models utilise a USB 3.0 interface. Buffalo says read speeds are up past 330MB/sec, with write speeds topping 400MB/sec. So 800MB of …
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Tuesday 11th June 2013 12:06 GMT Steven Raith
A quick google suggests..
A gig of DDR3 according to Buffallos website.
To be fair, for most stuff, that's well more than enough and would probably do no harm with small file transfers (assuming the host OS can keep up) but it'd be interesting to see how it copes with a 3gb file transfer.
I tend to bang a few hundred meg of photos over to a backup drive at a time - that'd suit me fine, assuming of course the drive has a DRAM battery somewhere...
Steven R
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