Ramdisk

frozenfrozen

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I wasn't aware that anything like this existed (or at least anything like this still existed! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga :pac:); Now that ram is so cheap and x79 is here in it's 8 dim consumer grade glory, is this doable?! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nP8Q-7Mdztg#t=947s)

Has anyone got any experience with this or thoughts on if this is really possible for every day use?

asif2011

It's cool that you can do this but I think it has a really limited use. You'll have to load possibly 16Gb (roughly the size of BF3) in to RAM each and every time you wanted to play it - or keep your machine on! 32Gb systems are really affordable now, but I'd still want as good a GPU as I could afford, that will effect games more...

frozenfrozen

I believe there is a way of creating a persistent ramdisk (Or at least that's what I am guessing from what was said in the video). This would be so amazing for video production as most bottlenecks I experience are actually in my storage setup... Except for actually rendering footage, but this would definitely help!

With HDD prices skyrocketing and the price of ram plummeting, this seems like a viable route for my next build, IF it proves to be usable.

Interesting stuff

asif2011

frozenfrozen wrote: »

This would be so amazing for video production as most bottlenecks I experience are actually in my storage setup... Except for actually rendering footage, but this would definitely help!

What happens if the power goes? Better off getting RAID or SSD...

k.p.h

asif2011 wrote: »

It's cool that you can do this but I think it has a really limited use. You'll have to load possibly 16Gb (roughly the size of BF3) in to RAM each and every time you wanted to play it - or keep your machine on!

Hold up, if the SSD benched above reads at 100+ MB/s and the RAM writes at 7000+ MB/s, so if you had your 16Gb of BF3 on your SSD you could load it in about 2min 30sec, and then have pretty much instant everything ..? Or am I getting my numbers mixed up .?

Hmmm realized I had the read/ write mixed up and then I had another look at the figures, could someone tell me how long it would take to load 16Gb from the SSD to the RAM according to the bench in the above video ..?

frozenfrozen

k.p.h wrote: »

Hold up, if the SSD benched above write's at 100+ MB/s and the RAM reads at 5000+ MB/s, so if you had your 16Gb of BF3 on your SSD you could load it in about 2min 30sec, and then have pretty much instant everything ..? Or am I getting my numbers mixed up .?

If it works like I think it does, then yes!

asif2011

k.p.h wrote: »

Hold up, if the SSD benched above write's at 100+ MB/s and the RAM reads at 5000+ MB/s, so if you had your 16Gb of BF3 on your SSD you could load it in about 2min 30sec, and then have pretty much instant everything ..? Or am I getting my numbers mixed up .?

Yeah when you put it like that, you might be right. I don't think it effects FPS much though... I wouldn't be running anything mission critical on that RAMdisk personally...