There have been a few guys that have managed to make the i-RAM drives work outside of a motherboard and I will soon have one and may want to do something similar.

while some of the solutions are easily reversible none of them seem very elegant
there are two things I want to try and figure out

-a larger battery

-a better, nicer looking way to power the card outside of the slot

I'm thinking maybe one of those external pci express to pci boards may be what I am looking for except just without plugging the pci express part in.

and as for the battery possibly something along the lines of a 18650 pack on leads paralleled into the external battery connector

anyone else here have one?

here is a collection of information about other mods that people have done
http://mattaw.blogspot.com/2014/06/modding-gi … ramdisk-to.html
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/pci-gi … t-the-pci-part-)/