Revision A goes into production on Wednesday 6th
April 2005 and can take 6 x 1GB DDR1 sticks. These sticks must be
Registered ECC and must employ 8 bit wide memory chips. At present
one can only get 1GB sticks or less in this configuration.
Samsung, Corsair, Kingston, Micron, Infineon all make such sticks
(Crucial do not). HyperOS will supply the part numbers of all
approved 1GB sticks for customer convenience by the time HD3 starts
shipping. HD3 Revision A will only take 6GB of ram. DDR1 sticks
should not be mixed, all sticks should be are from the same
Manufacturer.IOMETER test results are on the pre-production HD3
board and FOR comparison the same tests on a SATA drive (MAXTOR
DIAMONDMAX +9, 6Y120M0, 120GB, 7200 rpm, 8 MB cache).
Below are the IOMETER graphic results... |