So I made a ramdisk...
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ruthless_villain
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yeah
seumasbeathan
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Bit pointless, no? over £130 just for 32gb, just get a 128gb ssd, the speed difference would most likely not be noticeable
Goldskis45
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Depends on what RAM you have, most RAM can out run what an SATA III connection can allow...
You would need a PCI-e SSD to completely have no reason for a RAM disk.
bullshite... very noticable, especailly when rendering video in Sony and Adobe Production. plus access to
game maps and redraw situations is 10times faster from sub 600MB to over 8036MB. and its not just
syntheics.
he has 64GB, made a 32GB folder, with 26gb left over for another and still be normally functional.
airdeano
seumasbeathan
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I was meaning in everyday use
Goldskis45
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Yeah, I got all that ram (for suprisingly cheap) so I could have a large scratch disk for adobe CS6 stuff. I do a lot of video/image rendoring. So far it's working amazingly well. Although, I think I will have to make the partition a little smaller. I'm maxing out my memory when using 3gbs per core on my 3930k for rendoring.
I might try skyrim on it so I can invite over my xbox friends and show them what load times should be ;P
I might try skyrim on it so I can invite over my xbox friends and show them what load times should be ;P
Goldskis45
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Anybody who wants to see what a ramdisk can do this sites trial software is linked in the middle of the page
http://www.superspeed.com/desktop/ramdisk.php
http://www.superspeed.com/desktop/ramdisk.php
huh?
10x faster than SSD (500MB) compared to 6GB speed? and massive 4k improvement..youll notice that in everyday use..
airdeano
Current SSD in every day use, Things load almost instantly, There isn't alot of room for everyday improvement with software that is current today. Except for extremely high bandwidth stuff, Hence Scratch disc.
Scoob
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Skyrim runs amazingly well from a ram drive - so much so I thought my game had frozen when I ran my HD version again.
Ram drives are an order of magnitude faster than even a good SSD. Of course this doesn't always mean an equivalent increase in ALL read operations for example. In games, much of the stuff read from disk (so textures and the like as an example) are highly compressed so while you can read the data near-instantly from a ram drive the CPU still has to work to decompress and preparate the data.
Regardless though, gaming from a ram drive is great - I'd not go back to the old way lol. I can imagine with more serious applications the performance benefits are even more noticable - especially when working with raw uncompressed data. Remember we'er talking a few hundred megs a second for SSD and tens of GIGS a second for Ram...
Yes it's overkill, but that's sorta the point about being an enthusiast right?
Scoob.
