http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk

[maks]

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 gone

[steveyos]

[steveyos]

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

[juji]

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 gone

Thanks for clearing that, is really neccesary?

[steveyos]

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.

[juji]

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.

[maks]

Thanks, maybe when I get SSD, I remember maks told me SSD fucking sucks.

I told you they're small and expensive and break more often than hard drives, all of those things are true

[juji]

I told you they're small and expensive and break more often than hard drives, all of those things are true

Is true SSD has shorter life than hard drive?

[steveyos]

Is true SSD has shorter life than hard drive?

in 2009

Is true SSD has shorter life than hard drive?

it depends
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

[maks]

Is true SSD has shorter life than hard drive?

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 ram

[steveyos]

I told you they're small and expensive and break more often than hard drives, all of those things are true

in 2009

[maks]

in 2009

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 4-5

[maks]

Thanks for clearing that, is really neccesary?

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 SSD