Wow!!! RamDisk Setup & Demo with over 9,000 MB/s Write Performance!

PiKe · 21 Apr 2012 at 00:17

King Damager said:
'yay I loaded bf3 in 5 seconds, now I have to wait another 25 seconds whilst everyone else playing this game has to'....

Nelly · 21 Apr 2012 at 00:26

I think I'm definitly going to get 32GB Ram, will stick with this Z77 using all four banks.

The amount of time I spend reading up on geeky stuff on the net and I have never even seen this tech till tonight! feel like hitting my head against a brick wall! lol

SeraphX · 21 Apr 2012 at 00:29

Nelly said:
I think I'm definitly going to get 32GB Ram, will stick with this Z77 using all four banks.

The amount of time I spend reading up on geeky stuff on the net and I have never even seen this tech till tonight! feel like hitting my head against a brick wall! lol

i spotted it somewhere a few weeks back, but only finished my SB build with enough ram a few days ago now, thanks for posting this, and curses for posting this, never really played much with ram clocking in the past, so hope all this goes well haha

beejjacobs · 21 Apr 2012 at 00:31

I tried this a while ago when I first got 8GB of RAM and had plenty to spare. Only really tried to see how fast it was!

Using it for a cache and temp files seems like a good idea, but to be honest I really can't be bothered to set it up!

SeraphX · 21 Apr 2012 at 00:33

beejjacobs said:
I tried this a while ago when I first got 8GB of RAM and had plenty to spare. Only really tried to see how fast it was!

Using it for a cache and temp files seems like a good idea, but to be honest I really can't be bothered to set it up!

It's really not that hard, heck don't even need to reboot, all it took me was a few clicks and around 40-50 seconds and voila!

KiiYzOo · 21 Apr 2012 at 00:33

this would also be awesome with a dual xeon board with 128gb of ram

beejjacobs · 21 Apr 2012 at 00:36

SeraphX said:
It's really not that hard, heck don't even need to reboot, all it took me was a few clicks and around 40-50 seconds and voila!

I meant changing the temp locations and things! I guess its just to reduce wear on an SSD? But with TRIM does this matter?

Nelly · 21 Apr 2012 at 00:36

SeraphX said:
i spotted it somewhere a few weeks back, but only finished my SB build with enough ram a few days ago now, thanks for posting this, and curses for posting this, never really played much with ram clocking in the past, so hope all this goes well haha

I only found out because Gibbo in the CPU section posted "So who shall be buying IvyBridge?" and saw this post:

KiiYzOo said:
I want to get ivy unless it is a lot more expensive than sandy, but I definitely want an asus z77 motherboard after watching the asus z77 motherboard roundup on motherboards.org

So I went and had a look on youtube on the motherboards.org and there is a newer vid about this, so posted the vid, it feels like Asus trying to make out it's exclusive to they're boards only lol!

SeraphX · 21 Apr 2012 at 00:37

Nelly said:
I only found out because Gibbo in the CPU section posted "So who shall be buying IvyBridge?" and saw this post:
So I went and had a look on youtube on the motherboards.org and their was a newer vid about this, so posted the vid, it feels like Asus trying to make out it's exclusive to their boards only lol!

HA!

Lol if they are seriously trying to pull that one

KiiYzOo · 21 Apr 2012 at 00:38

yeah watched this video earlier and thought that I had heard of this before

even ttl said he's doing it in his main rig!

Nelly · 21 Apr 2012 at 00:50

SeraphX said:
HA!

Lol if they are seriously trying to pull that one

I've seen that JJ on a few newegg vids, says he's the marketing manager @ Asus, so guess he's giving it the big one on that video lol, at first I was like omg! Asus have really come up trumps here, only when I looked into it more I realised it works on any motherboards / ram lol.

KiiYzOo said:
yeah watched this video earlier and thought that I had heard of this before even ttl said he's doing it in his main rig!

lol this is absolutly amazing, it will take SSD's years! to catchup... wish we could get hold of 64GB sticks of Ram really cheap lol.

Surveyor · 21 Apr 2012 at 01:03

SeraphX said:
I think tomorrow is going to be spent tweaking ram settings, see if i can't get them running at 1866 and see if there are any significant increases to be had

A small increase in performance is all you'd likely get.

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valkynaz · 21 Apr 2012 at 02:35

Nightglow said:
Ram drives are so neglected in my opinion, been over looked far too long.

Probably because they don't offer any practical benefits over an SSD which can do the job better (e.g. the OS can be loaded onto it), and has higher storage capacity/lower £ per GB.

Ollie1132 · 21 Apr 2012 at 03:47

Goddamn 10gig/s write speeds... WOAH!

Nightglow · 21 Apr 2012 at 07:12

valkynaz said:
Probably because they don't offer any practical benefits over an SSD which can do the job better (e.g. the OS can be loaded onto it), and has higher storage capacity/lower £ per GB.

Some of the reasons ram drive weren't popular was due to the price of memory a few years back, now it's fairly cheap.
Plus no one had ssd's then, so you achieve little due to the limitation of the hard drive.

Great having your o/s on a sdd, it's fast, but with frequent read/write cycles,it's wear & tear on your ssd, which can be reduced by putting things like cache, page files, etc on the ram drive.
As you have all the caches, & other things on a ram drive, there is less clutter accumulating on your o/s, & as a result I don't need to use CCleaner so frequently.

thezakarum · 21 Apr 2012 at 07:55

Good morning.

So I've changed the bios settings to 2133MHz (10-10-10-28 1N) @ 1.45v and ran the two tests again.

These are the results;

As you can see its not much different to the figures I got before with 1866MHz (9-9-9-27 1N) @ 1.40v.

Nightglow · 21 Apr 2012 at 08:16

Thezakarum stick with 1866Mhz.

There must be an optimum memory speed for best results, before other limiting factors come in.

ChileanLlama · 21 Apr 2012 at 08:37

Nightglow said:
Great having your o/s on a sdd, it's fast, but with frequent read/write cycles,it's wear & tear on your ssd, which can be reduced by putting things like cache, page files, etc on the ram drive.
As you have all the caches, & other things on a ram drive, there is less clutter accumulating on your o/s, & as a result I don't need to use CCleaner so frequently.

How long do you want your SSD to last? Sure RAM disk will make things faster still, but come on, this "wear & tear" as though it matters is BS.

Guarantee you that with normal day to day use you won't wear out an SSD before it's obsolete.

I've some I really hammered, and I mean hammered since I got them 2 years ago, still showing 89 and 91% levels and good for 87 years at the same rate of use! Now I know that's likely not accurate, but I've no worries that they'll last me as long as I need.

Nightglow · 21 Apr 2012 at 09:28

You can't have 'wear & tear' as such, because there is no moving parts in a ssd.
But, by having all caches, page file, etc on a ram drive, you reduce the read/write cycles on the ssd, & as I've said before you reduce clutter building up.

ChileanLlama · 21 Apr 2012 at 09:47

No you've missed the point. Call it "wear & tear", call it "read/write cycles" (which is technically wrong because it's only the writes that are finite - you'll still be able to use an SSD for read only use once all the writes have been used).

It doesn't alter the fact there's little point in finding ways to avoid writing to SSDs. Drives will be obsolete well before write cycles become a factor in normal day to day use.

Don't have a problem with clutter and cleaning away temp files, that's a good reason for doing it.