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jji7skyline · 2011-10-24 21:46:25

I have just benchmarked a disk...

That's over 2GB per second!

The disk is just 1GB though.

Want one? Just ask! It's free if you have a computer smile

veggieman001 · 2011-10-24 21:50:54

Oh my. How do I get one? lol

jji7skyline · 2011-10-24 22:01:58

veggieman001 wrote:
Oh my. How do I get one? lol

Macintosh

Fire this into Terminal:

Code:

diskutil erasevolume HFS+ "ramdisk" `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://1165430`

Windows

Use this program: http://www.box.net/shared/htpmm1zm8e

You are basically using a portion of your RAM as storage, but please note that anything you put there will not be there after reboot. smile

meowmeow55 · 2011-10-24 22:02:09

I think I know what it is...
Well, there's 2 possibilities.
Edit: I was right big_smile

Last edited by meowmeow55 (2011-10-24 22:04:56)

jji7skyline · 2011-10-24 22:03:00

meowmeow55 wrote:
I think I know what it is...
Well, there's 2 possibilities.
Edit: I was right

What's the other possibility? big_smile

veggieman001 · 2011-10-24 22:03:06

Hmm nah I like my RAM.

meowmeow55 · 2011-10-24 22:04:41

jji7skyline wrote:
meowmeow55 wrote:
I think I know what it is...
Well, there's 2 possibilities.
Edit: I was right
What's the other possibility?

I was gonna guess a virtual machine disk, but now that I (actually) think about it, that wouldn't really make sense--unless it was in a RAMdisk itself anyway big_smile

Also, you can prolly configure the RAMdisk to write to someplace when the computer shuts down or at various intervals or something.

jji7skyline · 2011-10-24 22:05:01

veggieman001 wrote:
Hmm nah I like my RAM.

I rarely use all of my 4GB so I thought it would be nice to have a lightning fast disk on my desktop smile I still have 3GB left which is plenty.

It's good if for instance you copied Firefox or Gimp to that disk and ran it from there to be really fast. You'd need a copy on the HDD as well because RAM is volatile smile

jji7skyline · 2011-10-24 22:07:53

meowmeow55 wrote:
jji7skyline wrote:
meowmeow55 wrote:
I think I know what it is...
Well, there's 2 possibilities.
Edit: I was right
What's the other possibility?
I was gonna guess a virtual machine disk, but now that I (actually) think about it, that wouldn't really make sense--unless it was in a RAMdisk itself anyway

Also, you can prolly configure the RAMdisk to write to someplace when the computer shuts down or at various intervals or something.

Yes, is there a way on Mac? hmm

veggieman001 · 2011-10-24 22:08:18

jji7skyline wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
Hmm nah I like my RAM.
I rarely use all of my 4GB so I thought it would be nice to have a lightning fast disk on my desktop I still have 3GB left which is plenty.

It's good if for instance you copied Firefox or Gimp to that disk and ran it from there to be really fast. You'd need a copy on the HDD as well because RAM is volatile

Ah yeah that would be nice
I have 4GB but only 3.5 registers because I'm on 32-bit.

meowmeow55 · 2011-10-24 22:11:02

jji7skyline wrote:
meowmeow55 wrote:
jji7skyline wrote:
What's the other possibility?
I was gonna guess a virtual machine disk, but now that I (actually) think about it, that wouldn't really make sense--unless it was in a RAMdisk itself anyway

Also, you can prolly configure the RAMdisk to write to someplace when the computer shuts down or at various intervals or something.
Yes, is there a way on Mac?

You should be able to--I've heard about RAMdisks before, and it was writing to the drive at some point (or maybe it wasn't--oh wait it was--I can't remember tongue ), and it was a UNIX-based OS, so it should be possible on a Mac.

Oh, and I should try putting Firefox on a RAMdisk. It might actually make it faster yikes

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nextstorm · 2011-10-24 22:11:54

i have 80 gb hard drive space ;_______;

veggieman001 · 2011-10-24 22:13:00

i have like 39 left :I

nextstorm · 2011-10-24 22:13:51

i have 10 left in c:
i have 20 left in d:

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veggieman001 · 2011-10-24 22:16:40

lol
I have two 75 GB drives, as well as an external 150 GB drive actually.
No Surprises (C) has 6 GB left.
Running from Demons (G) has 33 GB left.
How Am I Driving? (H, the external) has 5 GB left.

Harakou · 2011-10-24 22:17:46

jji7skyline wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
Hmm nah I like my RAM.
I rarely use all of my 4GB so I thought it would be nice to have a lightning fast disk on my desktop I still have 3GB left which is plenty.

It's good if for instance you copied Firefox or Gimp to that disk and ran it from there to be really fast. You'd need a copy on the HDD as well because RAM is volatile

roll Except that's what happens anyway. Memory that isn't used by programs is used as cache to improve file operations, so when you open something, it's often already loaded into the RAM.

For example, I have 12GB of RAM. About 3GB of that is currently in use by programs, another 2GB is being used as cache, and the remaining 7GB is completely unused.

veggieman001 · 2011-10-24 22:19:08

12 GB? Jeez you should send me some. smile

jji7skyline · 2011-10-24 22:28:47

Harakou wrote:
jji7skyline wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
Hmm nah I like my RAM.
I rarely use all of my 4GB so I thought it would be nice to have a lightning fast disk on my desktop I still have 3GB left which is plenty.

It's good if for instance you copied Firefox or Gimp to that disk and ran it from there to be really fast. You'd need a copy on the HDD as well because RAM is volatile
Except that's what happens anyway. Memory that isn't used by programs is used as cache to improve file operations, so when you open something, it's often already loaded into the RAM.

For example, I have 12GB of RAM. About 3GB of that is currently in use by programs, another 2GB is being used as cache, and the remaining 7GB is completely unused.

Then your 7GB (or at least part of it) could be used for storing browser caches or Photoshop or some other resource intensive application smile

And I understand what you said about it loading into the RAM anyway, but the thing is that if you have an application in your RAMdisk, it doesn't have to load into the RAM at all! That means greatly reduced startup times.

I've done my research into this smile

catfan8 · 2011-10-24 22:41:19

My laptop can hold up to 16 exabytes of Ram, This is scary. I wish ram was really cheap, I could have the worlds best computer then.

Harakou · 2011-10-24 22:42:10

jji7skyline wrote:
Harakou wrote:
jji7skyline wrote:

I rarely use all of my 4GB so I thought it would be nice to have a lightning fast disk on my desktop I still have 3GB left which is plenty.

It's good if for instance you copied Firefox or Gimp to that disk and ran it from there to be really fast. You'd need a copy on the HDD as well because RAM is volatile
Except that's what happens anyway. Memory that isn't used by programs is used as cache to improve file operations, so when you open something, it's often already loaded into the RAM.

For example, I have 12GB of RAM. About 3GB of that is currently in use by programs, another 2GB is being used as cache, and the remaining 7GB is completely unused.
Then your 7GB (or at least part of it) could be used for storing browser caches or Photoshop or some other resource intensive application

And I understand what you said about it loading into the RAM anyway, but the thing is that if you have an application in your RAMdisk, it doesn't have to load into the RAM at all! That means greatly reduced startup times.

I've done my research into this

Well, that's true. Evidently you're aware that at some point between when you start the computer and when you launch the application, it has to be loaded into the RAM, or at least I think you are. RAM is volatile memory, so either you have to reload the data when you power the computer back on, or you have to keep sending power to the RAMdisk to hold the stored information.

Whenever I think about this I can't help but remember the guy who went out, bought 32GB of RAM and was determined to install Windows 7 on it. tongue

jji7skyline · 2011-10-25 01:13:55

Harakou wrote:
jji7skyline wrote:
Harakou wrote:

Except that's what happens anyway. Memory that isn't used by programs is used as cache to improve file operations, so when you open something, it's often already loaded into the RAM.

For example, I have 12GB of RAM. About 3GB of that is currently in use by programs, another 2GB is being used as cache, and the remaining 7GB is completely unused.
Then your 7GB (or at least part of it) could be used for storing browser caches or Photoshop or some other resource intensive application

And I understand what you said about it loading into the RAM anyway, but the thing is that if you have an application in your RAMdisk, it doesn't have to load into the RAM at all! That means greatly reduced startup times.

I've done my research into this
Well, that's true. Evidently you're aware that at some point between when you start the computer and when you launch the application, it has to be loaded into the RAM, or at least I think you are. RAM is volatile memory, so either you have to reload the data when you power the computer back on, or you have to keep sending power to the RAMdisk to hold the stored information.

Whenever I think about this I can't help but remember the guy who went out, bought 32GB of RAM and was determined to install Windows 7 on it.

Yes, RAM is volatile but there are programs that save a disk image of the RAMdisk and save it on the HDD on shut-down and reload it on startup. smile

Who was this guy? tongue If it had worked, he would have had a very fast computer lol

jji7skyline · 2011-10-25 21:37:25

bump

muppetds · 2011-10-26 05:49:04

catfan8 wrote:
My laptop can hold up to 16 exabytes of Ram, This is scary. I wish ram
was really cheap, I could have the worlds best computer then.

lol

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