RamDisk?

[circit]

Can somebody explain a bit to me about what ramdisk. When he showed the speed of it, i was amazed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP8Q-7Mdztg

At around 15:30

 

[Grizzly]

In simple terms, I believe it is a super SSD, allowing you to use some of your RAM as an SSD.

I think you used to be able to buy PCI cards (RAWZ was selling some) that allow you to install extra RAM in your system for this specific purpose.

 

[kilobravo]

Yes it uses ddr2 ram,and its unbelievebel fast,even compared to the fastest pci-e ssd`s.

 

[-warheart-]

as far as i know you cant store data on them though. which means that if you turn your rig off the data will be gone. they can be useful to test a very high bandwidth connection, like a 10 gb up down, because the drives you use for the file transfer need to be fast enough not to bottleneck the network

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

I thought you could download entirely software based ramdisk programmes - not sure how that'd work though.

Yeah it's like how with APUs you set aside some ram for the Vram, with ramdisks, you just set aside ram for mass storage instead.

10x faster than SSD I believe

 

[S_I_N]

correct its gone when pc is powered off or rebooted. It also has the tendency to slow down the shut down and boot up of your rig. but while running it can have good speeds. my best analogy for its use is as a caching tool.

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

correct its gone when pc is powered off or rebooted. It also has the tendency to slow down the shut down and boot up of your rig. but while running it can have good speeds. my best analogy for its use is as a caching tool.

Not much point loading a game on to it and using sleep mode instead of shut down though, because you'd only end up waiting on everyone else's game to load anyway while your's has already loaded but you can't start till they do. Good for caching design suites like Adobe's and 3D engines though, or hundreds of tabs in your browser, should you have that many.

 

[circit]

think its worth investing in an ssd or ram?

 

[S_I_N]

ssd is the better investment

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

Games > SSD

One or two games you only ever play > RAM

Design suites > RAM

Anything else > SSD

 

[airdeano]

RAM Drives in the ol days of DOS were created to

access files and programs faster than the HDD could

or that the data bus could deliver.

now cache programs and files need access and on SSD

the write function is slower. hence using allocated

memory instead of SSD is where the speed comes from.

RAM drives where non-exsistant after shutdown. so

anything in the RAM drive is gone, but the drive is

recreated upon boot up via autoexec.bat commands.

airdeano

 

[circit]

im going to have to try this some time, ty for the clear up on it

 

[seb900]

i remember TTL mentioning this technology on his youtube chanel , does anyone know what video it was in ????

and does ayone know if this would work on a RAID config??? (using it as ram cache)

 

[Firat]

i remember TTL mentioning this technology on his youtube chanel , does anyone know what video it was in ????

and does ayone know if this would work on a RAID config??? (using it as ram cache)

TTL mentioned it in his subscriber #15 video, as for your second Q iwould ask TTL himself for that one!

 

[Jamesey162]

You can also setup spare RAM as a disk using software like RAMDisk (there are other out there) and I get speeds like this on 1333MHz memory;

 

[seb900]

TTL mentioned it in his subscriber #15 video, as for your second Q iwould ask TTL himself for that one!

Thanks

 

[circit]

i did hear you can use your ram as a cache

 

[SPS]

i did hear you can use your ram as a cache

cache as in CPU cache? CPU cache exists because getting data from RAM is too slow.

 

[circit]

cache as in ssd i remember hearing it