http://memory.dataram.com/products-a...ftware/ramdisk
that's what I"m using to dedicate 4gb of my ram as my second life cache
http://memory.dataram.com/products-a...ftware/ramdisk
that's what I"m using to dedicate 4gb of my ram as my second life cache
dude fuck off nobody cares about your secondlife. or your first life.
Does it work to hardrives and storage devices?
that's not what a ramdisk does, it creates a virtual drive in RAM. we used to use them a lot in the dos days. stevey is wise to only use it for cache, since it's in ram once your machine reboots the whole drive is goneQuote:
Originally Posted by juji
second life is made entirely by players so every new item is a new object, every texture is different, literally every single thing is different
having that on a normal hard drive is hell, it's pure hell, and on a solid state drive it kills the drive in like 20 seconds
with the ram disk, like marks said it's stored on ram, and second life loads instatnly
the good thing is though this program saves it to my 4tb hdd so I don't actually lose the cache, oh man I love this shit I love it so much
on the left: my second life cache on my ram
on the right: ramdisk.img is it saved on my 4tb hdd, it saves it every time I shut the program down or every 15 minutes, or when I turn my comtpuer off etc then loads it up when I turn the program back on
that ram icon on my task bar to the left of my dataram program is second life, I changed the icon to remind my self to start the damn ramdisk program first lol because if I don't sl resets to the default cache on my ssd and I have to set it again and restart, though I should just set the ramdisk to boot with my pc since all I play is second life anyway and I have 16gb of ram so even if I do something else I still have 12gb of ram which is still overkill
Thanks for clearing that, is really neccesary?Quote:
Originally Posted by maks
it is for second life's cache
A Ramdisk is a disk drive that stores data in your computers memory (very fast) rather than on a physical disk drive (very slow). In a nutshell, you are sacrificing some of your computers memory in exchange for a very fast virtual disk drive. Second Life uses a disk cache to help speed up rezzing of repeat locations, placing this cache in a ram drive will dramatically boost it's performance.
This will not speed up the loading of locations the first time you visit them.
This is especially useful if your computer uses a solid state drive (SSD) as it will reduce the frequency of physical disk access and extend the life if your hardware.
This guide is written for Catznip running on Windows 8 64bit. Other viewers / Windows versions should work without issue but YMMV.
Thanks, maybe when I get SSD, I remember maks told me SSD fucking sucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by steveyos
the one I got is amazing http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820147194
SAMSUNG 840 Pro Series MZ-7PD512BW 2.5" 512GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
windows 8 boots in under ten seconds and my games dont' even have loading bars
Like NES and SNES consoles had ancient SSD on the games didn't have loading screens.
right and now my common and current games don't have loading screens either, the circle is complete
if you're using something that hits the disk all the time then it will be much faster. optimally a sata 3 drive has a transfer rate of 6Gb/s vs more like 10Gb/s for 1Ghz DDR3 and the seek speed is faster too even compared to an SSDQuote:
Originally Posted by juji
I told you they're small and expensive and break more often than hard drives, all of those things are trueQuote:
Originally Posted by juji
Is true SSD has shorter life than hard drive?Quote:
Originally Posted by maks
in 2009Quote:
Originally Posted by maks
in 2009Quote:
Originally Posted by juji
Maybe you mean SSD is not 2009 when it's using RAMDisk
it dependsQuote:
Originally Posted by juji
SSDs have a finite lifespan and HDDs have a random lifespan. HDDs could die of mechanical failure at any time, SSDs can't die of mechanical failure since they have no moving parts, but there is only so many times you can write to the disk
It makes sense, SSD is semiconductor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Camoron
depends on how often you hit them, specifically how often you write to them. I wouldn't put my pagefile there, not unless I had a whole fuckton of ramQuote:
Originally Posted by juji
Yeah, it's stupid to have a powerful pc to run second life
no they still cost 2-3x as much as a hard drive for the same amount of storage and still have a finate amount of writes which leads to bad sectors piling up which leads to data corruption. In a production environment I'd recommend replacing them every 2 years, I give consumer level hdd's 3 years and enterprise hdds 4-5Quote:
Originally Posted by steveyos
well see, I don't use my computer like everyone else, I barely touch mine so I'm fine with everyting literally loading instantly and with the amount I use it I won't have to replace it for ten yearsQuote:
Originally Posted by maks
over 100 terrorbytes written to the non-pro version of my drive so far and still going http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/51...end/index.html
I'll never go anywhere near that so mine should last forever, hooray instant loading
second life on ssd
second life cache on ramdisk
windows 8
fuck what you heard I"m living it, it's great, it's amazing it's as good as it gets abandon your influences and upgrade today
stevey I've worked on machines with 4 quad core xeon processors and a terabyte of RAM I'm not ever going to be impressed by your gaming rig. it's a nice box and I'm sure it runs second life really well but get ahold of yourself it's just a run of the mill high end home pc
it runs EVERY game maxed, how jaded can you possibly be it takes the hardest task of computing and does it as good as it can possibly be done what do you want it to also cook you breakfast?!
the bios uses a 3d interface that I can use my mouse in, there's two of them, the motherboard has a built in hdmi port, dvi port, vga port, two internet ports for some reason, there's three huge fans and 50 normal ones, there's even a spot for a fan behind the motherboard where the processor is, there's usb 3.0 ports on the mobo and on the top front of the tower, the graphics card pushes heat over a foot out of the back, there's RED LED'S, and I put the stickers from all the parts in every direction except facing upwards and I even took the copyright part of the gigabyte sticker that you're not evne supposed to put on the pc and put that on there and then put the gigabyte logo that you're supposed to put on there in that upside down, and I HAVE A 1TB HARD DRIVE PLUGGED INTO THE TOP OF THE TOWER BECAUSE FOR SOME REASON YOU CAN EVEN PLUG A HARD DRIVE INTO THE TOP OF THE TOWER
AND IT CAME WITH WHEELS
the power supply came in a velvet pouch too and it alone weighs about 50 pounds
and none of the wires are permanently attached now that is awesome
I work on VM hosts that house 20-25 copies of Server 2008r2, your machine would slow to a crawl after the third in fact it would need more ram just to hit the minimum system requirementsQuote:
Originally Posted by steveyos
yeah but I hate computers and would rather be shredding my guitar live on stage in front of a million people and then afterwards buliding a house for starving africans you understand that right, I hate computers, I don't care about technology, it's boring and stupid, I have a computer that can run every game maxed and I don't even like any games out, you get thsi right
the only reason I even have a computer is for second life and the only reason I play second life is because I make money very easy and I do that using blender and the stuff I make cna be put into any other game and used to make animated movies so I can make a gun, make money from it in second life, then put it on one of my characters for my kid's show as they shoot up a pre school
that's ltierally it for me with computers if I couldn't make real money in second life I wouldn't even have one you get that right
what is with you nerds ugh why do you guys get so mad when I say I'm not into star wars it's always an argument why can't I just enjoy real life and not care about star wars damn