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

you can basically load anything into it given enough space, i loaded entire benchmarks into mine just to test, day to day, firefox cache files as above, stand alone image editors would be pretty snappy on one, maybe even small games :)
 
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What would be worth using this for in normal day to day usage? I dont really have enough ram to put a game on it.
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Exactly this. It wouldn't be worth it purchasing 32GB (4x8GB) ram for ~£200 so you can store high GB games such as BF3, and still have a reasonable amount of RAM left over for OS and applications when you can buy a 240GB SSD for almost the same price.
 
Just done tests at 1333Mhz speeds were only a little slower tbh
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Tried booting at 1866 with no luck at all. :(
 
it does absolutely nothing performance wise,i could tell no difference apart from some pretty benchmark numbers
 
wazza300 said:
it does absolutely nothing performance wise,i could tell no difference apart from some pretty benchmark numbers
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this, noticed not one bit of performance boost with my 256gb m4.

nice benchmarks , but real world ,noticed no difference at all.
 
You'll notice a big difference when loading games and programs, but one of the other big benefits is when you're working with files over a long period of time the benefit stacks up, so it may take a minute to load bf3 onto a ramdisk, but if you're playing for 4-6 hours and the map changes every 15 minutes it'll be more worth it than if you're jsut gonig to play one or two rounds.

The same goes for when working with large files and infact ramdisks are particularly good when you have many small files and they really excel in this area.
 
Basically a RamDisk is only useful when you have a use for it that warrants the price for the extra ram, probably more like £100 than £200 as you'll need ram anyway. For people with £3000 gaming PC's I'd say it's definately worth it to load BF3 onto if they already overspent on a load of other stuff that has much less benefit and they want the fastest PC they can.

For professionals who do specific tasks that will be bottlenecked by SSD's even in Raid0 as opposed to the CPU or another component it is also worth it even if this is only for a very small minority of people. It's the same reason people get SSD's over HDD's only the percentage of uses that will be bottlenecked is much more scarce because of the highspeed SSD's already and finite uses for more speed.
 
Krono5 said:
You'll notice a big difference when loading games and programs, but one of the other big benefits is when you're working with files over a long period of time the benefit stacks up, so it may take a minute to load bf3 onto a ramdisk, but if you're playing for 4-6 hours and the map changes every 15 minutes it'll be more worth it than if you're jsut gonig to play one or two rounds.

The same goes for when working with large files and infact ramdisks are particularly good when you have many small files and they really excel in this area.
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So basically, it's good for small files, and big files? :D
 
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Good for big files, but much better for many small files. I retrospect I was being very unclear.

To clarify:

1) If you want the best of the best for gaming load times and money isn't an object 32gb RAM for a 16/24GB ramdisk is good.

2) If you do some very specific things that are SSD bottlenecked and you're working with the same files repeatedly so you don't need to keep loading things onto the ramdisk then it's also a very good idea.

3() #2 is better when it's thousands of small files than one or two large files purely by the way RAM works although both will see a benefit.
 
Finally a chance to put my 16GB of Kingston HyperX Grey 1.5v 1600mhz to good use!

This stuff is the dogs! :D



Is it possible to set this up as a cache? This would improve performance wouldn't it? im not really sure...
 
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There was a piece of hardware I remember from several years back where you could plug in 4/8 strips of DDR1 to this thing and put it in a pci port, then it would work as a harddisk, it had a small battery to keep the ram active on shutdown too. I never understood why they didnt update it when ddr2 became so cheep and pci-e gave more speed benefits :/
 
oxygene said:
There was a piece of hardware I remember from several years back where you could plug in 4/8 strips of DDR1 to this thing and put it in a pci port, then it would work as a harddisk, it had a small battery to keep the ram active on shutdown too. I never understood why they didnt update it when ddr2 became so cheep and pci-e gave more speed benefits :/
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This thing, Gigabye i-RAM

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2180#ov


Was sooooo tempted to buy one when they first came out, glad I resisted to be honest. :D
 
Some more info posted in this Hexus article, from yesterday >> http://hexus.net/tech/news/ram/46493-optimise-os-amd-radeon-ramdisk-application/
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Optimise your OS with the AMD Radeon RAMDisk application

When we think of RAMDisks, the first thing that comes to mind is that if the power is cut, data is lost and so we tend to steer clear of anything that attempts to place our precious files into volatile memory.

AMD believes, however, that RAMDisks are more relevant now than ever and that they have the potential to seriously enhance our PC experience. As such, AMD has teamed-up with specialist firm, Dataram, to launch the AMD Radeon RAMDisk and RAMDisk Xtreme software suites.

The former will allow users to automatically create disks of up to 4GB in RAM for free, whilst the latter, which can be had for ~$20, will allow users to automatically create virtual storage of up to 64GB. It's perhaps worth noting that owners of Radeon-branded memory, which the company launched earlier this year, will be able to squeeze 6GB out of the free edition.

Advantages over a standard spinning disk are clear:

  • Gaming up to 1,700 per cent faster
  • Significantly faster general performance - read performance up to 25.6GB/s
with DDR3-1600 RAM
With SSDs all-the-rage right now, the extra speed offered by RAMDisks may seem unnecessary, however, there are very real advantages to adopting a RAMDisk:
  • Keep temporary files and saves off the SSD - extending drive life
  • SSDs can dump data into RAM at incredible speeds, reducing the time it takes to prepare a RAMDisk after boot
For those who wish to give AMD's Radeon RAMDisk a try, you can head over to the following link and, please, let us hear about your experiences: www.radeonramdisk.com.

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Is there a way to set the RAM disk as a cache disk for a HDD? If so I might give this a go on my laptop, it feels so sluggish compared to my desktop :p.
 
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