Using your RAM at up to 9gig per sec

sycogrim

sycogrim

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Sorry folks, this is insanely amazing and I couldn't believe this!!!

Ok so what happened is the guy from ASUS in this Vid setup his RAM as a form of disk usage. He apparently used this on a 64Bit OS with 16Gigs of the fastest Asus Ram money has to buy.

Then what happened is they setup the Ram as a form of a disk drive (For those not so Hardware Savvy :)) and turned it into a high speed storage device.

Now the problem lies at this, RAM does not have it's own cooling infrastructure so I do not know how long this will last until your Ram gives up and BSOD's your Windows System.

So anyway check it out and enjoy!! :) It's full of awesomeness.

 
sycogrim said:
Now the problem lies at this, RAM does not have it's own cooling infrastructure so I do not know how long this will last until your Ram gives up and BSOD's your Windows System.
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Won't BSOD if the RAM is stable, which it generally will be unless you're running with an unstable O/C or something funky like that.

It works just as promised, but they glossed over the one reason why its not actually used much: If something happens (Eskom, BSOD...whatever) then the data is gone. Its only written to the SSD/HDD if you do a proper shutdown.

So you can't use it for anything even close to important & it gets used mostly for some temp files at best.

I'd imagine with a proper UPS it might approach being usable though for some non-critical tasks.
 
Don't see it working for gaming since games take up too much space, the scratch disc idea was actually pretty useful but you have to ask though, if you have enough ram then why is the program putting temp files on disc?
 
Pretty damn cool. I'm glad they're thinking out the box here, who knows where this could lead us.
 
Another issue with ram is that it needs constant power to hold data... the moment you switch off your machine or the power dips that data is gone
 
We use tmpfs in Linux to create areas that masquerade as hard disk (mountable volumes), but is in fact reserved space in the Memory. We use this for caching and session data, which will / could be lost during a power failure in any case.

This is very similar to the above and "scratch disks".
 
Ram disks are awesome but like many of the guys have mentioned...1 dip in power...once you turn off you're pc ect...the data is lost so for now its not viable.
 
Intrusting, so install a game on ram disk finish game before eskom kills the power sounds like a fun game to try.
 
Hipster boozer did this before it was cool -_-

U even remoted me to see via that jumanji nonsense syco lol
 
BlaZing said:
Intrusting, so install a game on ram disk finish game before eskom kills the power sounds like a fun game to try.
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Well considering your save games aren't in the same place as the game files it wouldn't really work that way. Also where do you live that your power doesn't stay on long enough to finish a game?
 
MOnk said:
Well considering your save games aren't in the same place as the game files it wouldn't really work that way. Also where do you live that your power doesn't stay on long enough to finish a game?
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In south africa. Where stability of power is not assured
 
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