How Do RAM Drives Work?

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7 жыл бұрын

RAM drives are insanely fast, but are they a worthwhile project?
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@marcorennmaus
@marcorennmaus 7 жыл бұрын
2:45 fucking hell, that one scared the shit out of me
@TrueFireAnt
@TrueFireAnt 7 жыл бұрын
+Joshua W *faze
@captainswjr
@captainswjr 7 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that made my heart skip a beat.
@Real-Ruby-Red
@Real-Ruby-Red 7 жыл бұрын
actually smart ass, it's phase not faze, faze is the name of an esports organisation, phase is the correct word. Go fuck yourself.
@PhaseGamer
@PhaseGamer 7 жыл бұрын
phase is also my name lol
@gokureturns67gokureturns67
@gokureturns67gokureturns67 7 жыл бұрын
Dude, samee
@HeatherWarner97
@HeatherWarner97 7 жыл бұрын
But Linus... A UPS wouldn't help you if your cat chewed up your power cord...
@antonrockoboac8711
@antonrockoboac8711 7 жыл бұрын
maybe if it was the ups cored
@DanielLiuzzi
@DanielLiuzzi 7 жыл бұрын
It wouldn't help the cat either...
@cameronmartin7911
@cameronmartin7911 7 жыл бұрын
Was just looking to see if someone pointed this out. Good work
@morzone
@morzone 7 жыл бұрын
It might, if the cat learns its lesson and never chews on a rubber cord again.
@NickFaina
@NickFaina 7 жыл бұрын
RIP cord kitty
@Everybody90fr
@Everybody90fr 7 жыл бұрын
2:43 this scared me
@meadowsirl
@meadowsirl 6 жыл бұрын
4:50 is what made me briefly go WTF! The volume was different to the rest of the video.
@error-un3fo
@error-un3fo 4 жыл бұрын
thism made me jump too a whole 3 years later
@ayazk325
@ayazk325 4 жыл бұрын
tf same here
@rodin0100
@rodin0100 4 жыл бұрын
@@error-un3fo same here
@thebrax
@thebrax 4 жыл бұрын
TheGownGamer 6 months
@jojo1isawesome
@jojo1isawesome 7 жыл бұрын
Wait how about L3 cache storage!?!?!
@tjeulink
@tjeulink 7 жыл бұрын
what about the flip flop gates?
@joecoley3664
@joecoley3664 7 жыл бұрын
I don't think it could be done, but could someone who is smart explain it.
@BrandonBeanland
@BrandonBeanland 7 жыл бұрын
i don't know what to put on my 8MB(or so) cache. Not really feasible today.
@jojo1isawesome
@jojo1isawesome 7 жыл бұрын
Lol guys calm down it's a joke... and besides that memory is needed for the CPU to function... I'm not sure you could take space from the L3 cache without bricking the computer.... but if u want Linus you could give us a cool video
@justinbeamon6624
@justinbeamon6624 7 жыл бұрын
I guess if you have one of those fancy 6950x's with crazy cache you might be able to split it in half and not affect it in light loads. but who knows
@jeewon.364
@jeewon.364 7 жыл бұрын
Help! I just downloaded more ram off the Pirates Bay and it is not speeding up my computer. Should I also download a new broadband/PCI-E slot? I k ow they are virtually the same thing but I will buy both if needed.
@abhi.marc90
@abhi.marc90 7 жыл бұрын
yeah i also bought gpu vram from pirate bay free of course and now i have 24gb of vram
@jeewon.364
@jeewon.364 7 жыл бұрын
+Abhishek Guru well with most triple a games 24 won't be enough to download it. I would switch to a USB drive for improved speed.
@turkidot
@turkidot 7 жыл бұрын
128GB here, 3 instances of Witcher 3 at 8k 144fps.
@abhi.marc90
@abhi.marc90 7 жыл бұрын
i think tape drives are best for these games they are a lot fast
@Remington510
@Remington510 7 жыл бұрын
Your printer seems to be incompatibile. Try to restart and recompile your kernel after you set it to Half-Duplex.
@DanishNighthawk
@DanishNighthawk 7 жыл бұрын
If your cat chews on the power cord you will lose more than your data! :O
@mirldickey4384
@mirldickey4384 7 жыл бұрын
fried pussy
@Roshy1
@Roshy1 7 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but what's more important?
@silverronaldold2932
@silverronaldold2932 7 жыл бұрын
Instant Chinese cuisine!! Yea I'm going to hell..
@MrMats0n
@MrMats0n 7 жыл бұрын
Yea, you can also lose hardware components, most likely hdds! That's quite rare though.
@death00124
@death00124 7 жыл бұрын
u lose a cat too
@hellcat1988
@hellcat1988 7 жыл бұрын
The ultimate speed drive you could ever hope to have: cpu cash drive. It WILL be a thing eventually.
@Snubbs
@Snubbs 7 жыл бұрын
well the new(ish) E5 2699 currently has 55MB of L3 cache if i'm not wrong. I'm sure that somebody could find a use for that storage. Of course, it'd mean limiting your cache somewhat, slowing down other processes. It'd be interesting to see how it'd work though.
@hellcat1988
@hellcat1988 7 жыл бұрын
Gordon Rammstein I'm talking when it gets into the multi-gig range. Then we will truly have s.o.c. computers.
@ColinReay
@ColinReay 7 жыл бұрын
IIRC, the bigger your cache becomes, the more latency and power consumption, which is why cache (which has to be very fast, and is split up into different levels, each concurrent one having more space but higher latency) is pretty small. I think HBM on die with a cpu is what a lot of people are talking about as the way to go in the future.
@chbrules
@chbrules 7 жыл бұрын
Cache* Maybe we'll see SRAM drives in the future
@jefftodd3595
@jefftodd3595 7 жыл бұрын
oh dude operating system on cache, hel yeah
@apophthegm
@apophthegm 7 жыл бұрын
wait, cant you just download more ram? I did that
@gaminghoot7020
@gaminghoot7020 7 жыл бұрын
Probably why you're dead.
@earnestbunbury2103
@earnestbunbury2103 7 жыл бұрын
What a "hoot"! lol
@JackLe1127
@JackLe1127 7 жыл бұрын
you can download more haRAMbe memes
@balestre4141
@balestre4141 7 жыл бұрын
I just downloaded more hertz for my monitor
@adamclarke403
@adamclarke403 7 жыл бұрын
I download an iPhone
@SeanJean187
@SeanJean187 7 жыл бұрын
Hold on, at 2:35 it shows 16GB of DDR4 ram for $66? And it is not on sale? That must be photoshopped...
@joshuareynolds5219
@joshuareynolds5219 6 жыл бұрын
I looked up that ram on Newegg and it is listed for $190, they probably edited the video to see if anyone would notice that something wasn't right.
@aboveayden
@aboveayden 6 жыл бұрын
last year around september there was a surplus ram market, it was dead ass cheap for like a month XD ( i dont think it was THAT cheap tho)
@jeehoondevil
@jeehoondevil 6 жыл бұрын
Lol ram prices are so absurd nowadays people are actually thinking ram prices from a few years ago were photoshopped lmao.
@MOONRIO
@MOONRIO 5 жыл бұрын
The video was published on 2016, gentleman. And you are commenting a year later on RAM prices saying it's photoshopped. Now it's 2019. Time for us to move our asses keep going with the insane RAM prices...
@biryani_master
@biryani_master 5 жыл бұрын
Although this video is old but in here pakistan i got 32gb of ram dd4 just for 15000pkr almost equivalent to 120 dollars .
@DigitalMetal
@DigitalMetal 7 жыл бұрын
Linux has this function built in. You can easily create a ramfs with the mount command: mount -t tmpfs -o size=512m tmpfs /mnt/ramdisk Most Linux Distros that run off live CD/USB can be told to load the entire OS to RAM at startup. In most cases if you are running a live system everything is going to be erased on reboot unless you tell it otherwise. So if you have enough RAM (and most full desktop Linux system are probably around 1.5GB, but many are much lighter), the only draw back is that it will take a few minutes for everything to copy to RAM while booting. Also, many Linux devices such as routers, modems, and IOT devices create and load the system to a RAM drive with a small partition on flash for storing settings.
@bruhmomenthdr7575
@bruhmomenthdr7575 2 жыл бұрын
typically the /tmp directory is already mounted as a tmpfs so you can just use that directory
@greatwavefan397
@greatwavefan397 Жыл бұрын
That leaves me with a dilemma: If I want to store pfsense on a RAM drive, and it requires 8GB of storage and 1GB of ram, I may be unable to fit everything into an 8GB system.
@abbypatacsil1177
@abbypatacsil1177 Ай бұрын
ms-dos has ramdisk support
@VictorGIUBILEI
@VictorGIUBILEI 7 жыл бұрын
Btw, your operating system already stores frequently used files (like some browser files, or files you r/w to frequently) on unused ram, so don't fill up your ram too much.
@davidmovsisyan1280
@davidmovsisyan1280 Жыл бұрын
is it "unused" anymore then?
@syrus3k
@syrus3k Жыл бұрын
@@davidmovsisyan1280 it's complicated.
@davidmovsisyan1280
@davidmovsisyan1280 Жыл бұрын
@@syrus3k ok?
@Im_Just_A_Dreamer
@Im_Just_A_Dreamer 7 жыл бұрын
2:44 FUCK THAT STARTLED ME
@sherpajones
@sherpajones 6 жыл бұрын
I'm thinking ram drive might be ideal for undo/redo states that are saved to disk and are very large. The files wouldn't need to survive a boot.
@dstarr3
@dstarr3 7 жыл бұрын
I use SoftPerfect RAM Disk and it's terrific. Also, free. I run a couple VMs off of RAM disks, XP boots in about two seconds.
@stenionet
@stenionet 7 жыл бұрын
I am using too. And it is very good.
@nO_d3N1AL
@nO_d3N1AL 7 жыл бұрын
I have 12GB RAM but use a 3.5GB RAM disk not for speed, but to stop continuous writes to my SSD. My main use for this is NVIDIA Shadowplay: a 7.5 minute recording at 1080p 60 FPS in high quality takes up about 3GB in temporary files (which are automatically deleted when you save the recording) but is always recording in "Shadow" mode. Another use is for saving downloads and then running the installers/apps from there; since it'll be faster too and you'll get rid of them anyway.
@jaronoliver5687
@jaronoliver5687 7 жыл бұрын
Same (16GB RAM with 2 GB RAM drive for ShadowPlay)
@brandonaitken5950
@brandonaitken5950 7 жыл бұрын
Ssds are much more durable than you think and writing data to it like that won't wear it out. It will still last decades with shadow play running constantly
@jamesslick4790
@jamesslick4790 7 жыл бұрын
IDK about "decades" I remember when CDs were supposed to last 100 years. Well I have ones from the 1990s that look perfect and refuse to play. OTOH, I have 78rpm records from 1930 that play flawlessly...
@nO_d3N1AL
@nO_d3N1AL 7 жыл бұрын
pop pop if you have spare RAM doing nothing, it's better to use that though, right?
@nO_d3N1AL
@nO_d3N1AL 7 жыл бұрын
pop pop not really, it's easy to set up and mostl ikely if you have a sudden power loss then you've lost the value of what's on the RAM drive anyway (e.g. files used during real-time gameplay capture, which are automatically deleted when you stop recording)
@kendawg_mcawesome
@kendawg_mcawesome 7 жыл бұрын
I actually use my RAMDisk as my downloads folder. Seems dumb, but it means I get a nice purge of my downloads folder when I restart.
@McManMinecraft
@McManMinecraft 7 жыл бұрын
I can see how that would be useful.
@pufferfish0101
@pufferfish0101 7 жыл бұрын
how about using it as a Temp drive
@kendawg_mcawesome
@kendawg_mcawesome 7 жыл бұрын
I don't really have any uses for it that wouldn't require I get more RAM. I have enough excess of RAM (32GB) to justify setting aside a few GBs for temporary downloads, but I'd need more for most applications I can think of. I suppose I could use it as a scratch for video if I really wanted, but that seems really risky.
@MUSiCK9
@MUSiCK9 7 жыл бұрын
I'm using it as a Temp drive right now, I used it for so long that i'm not sure if i want to store my temp files in a hdd now, aha. I'm also using it to quicky start up programs i use everyday such as Steam, SpeedFan, MSI Afterburner e.g Super helpful.
@pufferfish0101
@pufferfish0101 7 жыл бұрын
i still haven't gotten SoftPerfect Ram Disk to load programs into ram at startup
@goyabee3200
@goyabee3200 7 жыл бұрын
But... what if the cat chews on the cord that goes from the UPC to the computer?
@nuclearreactor7058
@nuclearreactor7058 7 жыл бұрын
you need a new cat
@TimFuzail
@TimFuzail 7 жыл бұрын
Eryche Bandy and the cord
@katieell4084
@katieell4084 6 жыл бұрын
Then what you'd have on your hands is both a non-working computer and a non-working cat.
@WWFYMN
@WWFYMN 3 жыл бұрын
Yeet the cat
@joelshort278
@joelshort278 3 жыл бұрын
Yes
@TheBHAitken
@TheBHAitken 7 жыл бұрын
I remember playing around with RAM drives back in the eighties, you could purchase the card and install your own ram with a nice little battery backup if you wanted, and I had the operating system copy over on startup. Mind you, operating systems were a lot smaller back then so it only took about five minutes. Nowadays it almost takes that long just for the opening sequences to load up these days.
@itsdeonlol
@itsdeonlol 7 жыл бұрын
I didn't know you could go faster than a SSD. Thanks for this Linus!
@MetroShock
@MetroShock 7 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who hates the new KZfaq app comments section layout on Android
@jamesslick4790
@jamesslick4790 7 жыл бұрын
You're Not alone. It sux so bad.... It's Comcastic!!!
@tiagoluz8
@tiagoluz8 7 жыл бұрын
What's so bad about it? You can like and dislike comments now.
@jamesslick4790
@jamesslick4790 7 жыл бұрын
I have had THAT ability for the longest time b4 this Comcastic crap update.
@christopherweeks89
@christopherweeks89 7 жыл бұрын
It's the same on iOS now. I hate it
@tiagoluz8
@tiagoluz8 7 жыл бұрын
I never actually use the app, desktop user here. Opened the app on my LG G3, and you guys are right, this is atrocious. They screwed up the comments on the desktop website too, when you reply to a comment there's no way to tell who you're talking to specifically.
@keco185
@keco185 7 жыл бұрын
I've always heard it ram disk not ram drive. Tomato tomato I suppose. Except that when you write tomato tomato the words look identical so it doesn't really get the point across. Just go back and read the 2nd tomatoes with the British pronunciation.
@DieHeartly
@DieHeartly 7 жыл бұрын
2:43 that scared the shit out of me! :(
@briansteele3592
@briansteele3592 7 жыл бұрын
I love your transition into your advertisements, too good! I'm coming to you for helpful videos.
@Impossible_Fishy
@Impossible_Fishy 4 жыл бұрын
“If your cat chews on your power cord” Things that are wrong with that 1. The cat gets shocked 2. The power cord is plugged into the ups so it still turns off Linus pls don’t kill me I’m a huge fan
@xurtis
@xurtis 7 жыл бұрын
Or use an operating system like Linux that uses unused memory to cache frequently and recently used files automatically...
@peter3337
@peter3337 7 жыл бұрын
Doesn't windows do that also? And Samsung SSD's have a feature called rapid mode which does that
@xurtis
@xurtis 7 жыл бұрын
The SSD can't control your RAM, but they do have an internal cache that might be faster than the storage flash or you may install software on your system to do that, but yes, I beleive recent versions of windows do something similar to what linux does. I think it generally works out as a better use than an actual ram disk as you get decent speed improvement but less volatility. You just need to make sure your disks sync before you detatch them I'm not sure on the windows front, but linux will inform software that, if it can fit a disk write into free memory, that the write happened almost instantaneously whilst it stores the data in RAM until the actual write is completed. If something looks for that data before the write finishes, it gets grabbed straight from RAM. Linux will also try and figure out which chunks of data get accesses most frequently from disk and try and stick them in RAM too.
@Aimela136
@Aimela136 7 жыл бұрын
"an operating system like Linux" I'm sorry, but that phrasing...
@xurtis
@xurtis 7 жыл бұрын
Fair point, would "like an operating system based on linux" be more correct perhaps?
@CheapSushi
@CheapSushi 7 жыл бұрын
There's a feature in Win10 for compressed memory that does it somewhat but the main feature called superfetch got depreciated because people figured SSDs were fast enough (this was used for HDDs). I think you can still enable it with a registry hack.
@davidhuang2895
@davidhuang2895 6 жыл бұрын
2:39 When you see a 16 GB kit of DDR4 3000 RAM going for $67 a little over 1 year ago, doesn't it make you mad that you can't even get a 8GB kit of budget DDR4 RAM for that price?
@jourdn11
@jourdn11 6 жыл бұрын
I absolutely cannot believe how much DDR4 has been. I recently paid nearly $200 for a decent 2x8GB set. Even black friday/cyber monday deals were about double what prices used to be. To answer your question; YES.
@aLQuarter
@aLQuarter 5 жыл бұрын
you should have waited
@aLQuarter
@aLQuarter 5 жыл бұрын
@KillerHax good price!
@skandy6847
@skandy6847 2 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing this was during the last crypto surge or something?
@WhenDoesTheVideoActuallyStart
@WhenDoesTheVideoActuallyStart 2 жыл бұрын
@@skandy6847 Nah, crypto doesn't affect RAM. It was "just" a RAM cartel deliberately manufacturing less than what was demanded so as to deliberately inflate prices.
@Braeden123698745
@Braeden123698745 7 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I've been asking about this for a while
@savastevanovic4268
@savastevanovic4268 7 жыл бұрын
Was thinking about what i would do if i had any computer components and this came to mind. Glad to know it is possible.
@martijnoosterhuis6763
@martijnoosterhuis6763 7 жыл бұрын
2:43 that sound effect though, it scared the shit out of me with headphones!
@stephensnell5707
@stephensnell5707 2 ай бұрын
But what Linus says at that point in this Video is all true A power outage or shutting down a Computer/Laptop means the RAM will lose everything on it
@Panj0
@Panj0 7 жыл бұрын
It might be good to mention that your ram speed is only as fast as the lowest speed chip you have installed. So unless you have spare ram that matches your best installed ram, just sticking any old sticks in may not be a good idea as it could limit your performance.
@SuperGojeto
@SuperGojeto 7 жыл бұрын
A video explaining disadvantages of ssd would be appreciated since no one has made one yet.
@marawanahmed2483
@marawanahmed2483 3 жыл бұрын
ive been watching linus for years but now hes helping me with my computer programing homework
@NicoIsntHere
@NicoIsntHere 7 жыл бұрын
How many carbs does RAM have, asking for a friend.
@DonaldJPump24
@DonaldJPump24 7 жыл бұрын
2.5
@who-but-n33
@who-but-n33 7 жыл бұрын
7 / 16gb
@pickachublast8
@pickachublast8 7 жыл бұрын
16 grams per serving
@jamesslick4790
@jamesslick4790 7 жыл бұрын
I'm (to this day) using a Rochester QuadraJet CARB on an old IBM-PC AT 286-16 - 650 CFM, Tops, But that was the styyyyle in '89....and we LIKED IT..ok, Modern fuel injection MAY be more efficient, But Can't top the torque of a 286!
@maximmax42
@maximmax42 7 жыл бұрын
2:43 Damn, it scared me af!
@Coldsteak
@Coldsteak 7 жыл бұрын
Linus, I love that snail sitting on a hard drive stock image, it's so cute. please use it more, thank you
@xnamkcor
@xnamkcor 7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for not only showing that hardware based solutions exist, but also showing one with a back-up battery.
@sfs2040
@sfs2040 7 жыл бұрын
How would a UPS help if your cat chewed through the PC power cord?
@Grissol69
@Grissol69 7 жыл бұрын
Harambe's Death as Fast as Possible.
@mukeshrc7594
@mukeshrc7594 7 жыл бұрын
Please can you make a video on what is workstation and how it operates and also why it is required
@platipusoj
@platipusoj 7 жыл бұрын
In linux it's a built in feature: ram is mounted on /tmp :). Also you can run it (the OS) from ram, (though you will still obviously have to boot from a persistant storage medium).
@theendofit
@theendofit 7 жыл бұрын
it would be interesting to instal a game on ram that has long load times.
@talkashie
@talkashie 7 жыл бұрын
Installed COD4 onto a RAM drive a while back. The load times were quite a bit faster than normal, but I do not think it is very practical in most consumer settings.
@omegarugal9283
@omegarugal9283 7 жыл бұрын
because when a game loads isn`t just "copying files to RAM", also involves decompression, CRCs, DRMs...
@yosyp5905
@yosyp5905 7 жыл бұрын
and the application data is still stored in the main storage.
@dstarr3
@dstarr3 7 жыл бұрын
If you have spare RAM, you can toy with two free programs. SoftPerfect RAM Disk and Steam Mover. Create a RAM disk, then move a Steam game onto it. Genereally, yeah, you'll see a bit of a loading boost, but not a lot. Realistically, only maybe 10% of a game's loading time is spent transferring data from one place to another. Most of what's done during loading times is processing on that data, decompression, rendering, etc.
@DerJoshbert
@DerJoshbert 7 жыл бұрын
I always questioned myself, how fast A GTA V on RamDisk would load like, but I haven't 60 GB of Ram XD
@NiCoDBeiKerF
@NiCoDBeiKerF 7 жыл бұрын
In about 10 year we'd be like: RAM disks? thats so fucking slow, do L1 cache disk!!
@HectorDomino.
@HectorDomino. 7 жыл бұрын
LOL!!! 10 years too long as you already took it to the highest level possible mate, directly to the CPU cache!!! I've never imagined it before. Epic!
@user-uc3oj5us1g
@user-uc3oj5us1g 6 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much!, your video was good,clear and can easily to understand.. Again Thank You Very Much!..
@brbbiobreak
@brbbiobreak 7 жыл бұрын
SoftPerfect RAM Disk ftw. As a ramdisk user, I must note that bluescreens are a much bigger problem than loss of power.
@mitchell3876
@mitchell3876 6 жыл бұрын
"But, even though system memory is much cheaper these days," god I still wish
@christianmino4073
@christianmino4073 Жыл бұрын
Your wish has been granted. lol.
@FT099
@FT099 7 жыл бұрын
Speaking of chewing, here's something to chew on, Crunchy Roll!!
@znefas
@znefas 3 жыл бұрын
crunchyroooooll take me home to my waifus and my himotouuuus
@INFA_KNIGHT
@INFA_KNIGHT 3 жыл бұрын
@@znefas ....
@wlcmtoricefieldsmf
@wlcmtoricefieldsmf 3 жыл бұрын
@@znefas Ah you are a man of culture as well
@ConsensusX
@ConsensusX 7 жыл бұрын
3:13 you sounded sooo Canadian when you said "SUrry" lol.
@technodaz
@technodaz 7 жыл бұрын
I used to use it back in the day for RCT3 because it would turn 3 minutes loading time to around 10 seconds.
@shlomomolokandov7270
@shlomomolokandov7270 3 жыл бұрын
2:44
@Kreegam
@Kreegam 3 жыл бұрын
thank you for this sound
@realFoxBox
@realFoxBox 6 жыл бұрын
"System memory is at least cheaper these days" *looks up the same ram, its almost 3 times as much now only a year later* WHY?!
@JerryPaceco
@JerryPaceco 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!!
@tihzho
@tihzho 5 жыл бұрын
Yup, ram drives have been around for ages. I used a DOS ram drive back in 1989 with AutoCAD R9 and it made a difference.
@martinshoosterman
@martinshoosterman 7 жыл бұрын
that sounds wayy to slow, can i get a cache drive?
@master74200
@master74200 7 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, this is about as fast as it gets. If you want to go even faster, you need multiple faster interfaces that can be accessed in parallel and then RAID 0 them. I'm not sure if this is as doable on Windows as on Linux, but it's certainly possible. You will have a bigger latency than with RAM though, since RAM is as latency-free as it gets, until we start talking CPU cache.
@mystlegend9359
@mystlegend9359 7 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure this comment was a joke..
@martinshoosterman
@martinshoosterman 7 жыл бұрын
i was talking about cpu cache...
@TheBrinkofDestruction
@TheBrinkofDestruction 6 жыл бұрын
Just to humor the point since I asked my CS professor, at that point, CPU Cache is fast only because it is small (less to search/sort through) and integrated into the processor for the most efficient data transfer. Here's an article on it: www.quora.com/Why-are-CPU-caches-faster-than-RAM
@kuronosan
@kuronosan 7 жыл бұрын
L1 Cache Drive :P
@banu6301
@banu6301 7 жыл бұрын
cant wait for that. With that speed I will be able to transfer all my porn in only 10 minutes :D
@ganaraminukshuk0
@ganaraminukshuk0 7 жыл бұрын
Given that cache is even faster than RAM, I can't imagine how much porn you have that'd it take a cache disc 10 minutes to transfer.
@CheapSushi
@CheapSushi 7 жыл бұрын
Not possible since L1 is closest to the compute node. You could do an L4 cache using a software RAM drive, an actual RAM drive like the Gigabyte GC-iRAM or Optane/Xpoint, which is an intermediate between RAM and Storage.
@banu6301
@banu6301 7 жыл бұрын
Ganaram Inukshuk exactly xD
@GrooveFederation
@GrooveFederation 7 жыл бұрын
i bet its minecraft porn the blockier the better ;-)
@ransabalon
@ransabalon 7 жыл бұрын
Hi linus! I was wondering if this would work on after effect. setting it as the Disk cache? will it improve aftereffects? thanks.
@Lorofol
@Lorofol 7 жыл бұрын
I live in QLD, Australia and this financial year, it took me 15 minutes to do my taxes...
@cqwickedwake7651
@cqwickedwake7651 7 жыл бұрын
Ram is slow, just buy IDE HDD and you are good
@katieell4084
@katieell4084 6 жыл бұрын
I read somewhere that if you tilt those on their side, gravity will pull one side of the platter down and speed up the drive by a factor of, like, 6.
@MsPokemonsoulsilver
@MsPokemonsoulsilver 7 жыл бұрын
wow i literally just commented on the puget system build video yesterday about making a ramdisk video. im not sure if this was in response to that or just really good timing but thank you regardless
@frost381
@frost381 7 жыл бұрын
perfect for the PLEX Temp Transcode Folder :-)
@woofelator
@woofelator 5 жыл бұрын
I never thought of this
@psivewri
@psivewri 7 жыл бұрын
The Crucial BX200 shown is actually one of the slowest SSDs when it comes to constant file writing. I learnt the hard way.
@nerd2544
@nerd2544 Жыл бұрын
yoooo psivweri love your vids do you remember writing this comment
@Dat_Typ
@Dat_Typ 6 жыл бұрын
The Ram prices in this video on the Screenshot are just a dream these days
@TheLargedwarf
@TheLargedwarf 7 жыл бұрын
well now i want to see a ram only computer...Linus can you make it happen please?
@zainjutt6073
@zainjutt6073 6 жыл бұрын
CAN YOU PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO ON "RAM SIMULATION (working of ram inside the system)".
@barbarathomas5647
@barbarathomas5647 7 жыл бұрын
I love how you teach! I have watched tech videos by other people to help with studying for A+ cert and they put me to sleep!
@brianpso
@brianpso 7 жыл бұрын
Thank god whenever I get a WR I upload it right away lol
@lukayy235
@lukayy235 7 жыл бұрын
Would be cool, if you can Test/Review this Hardware RAM Drive thing :)
@techhfreakk
@techhfreakk 7 жыл бұрын
I'm really hoping for a Beginner's Overclocking Guide from Techquickie or Linus Tech Tips.
@juansebastiancortazar3322
@juansebastiancortazar3322 6 жыл бұрын
2:39 this makes me cry in 2018
@Sonicdude10
@Sonicdude10 7 жыл бұрын
Friend had a pretty read/ write heavy Minecraft modpack running on a server so a few of us could play it together. Client side it ran fine from a standard disk drive but the server was always hitting the max IOPS of the disk drives and causing too much lag. Solution was to move the Minecraft server directory and modpack to a RAM drive. Set the drive up to save the contents of the RAM drive to an image file on a HDD every 10 minutes. Server lag went away. Only downside was the CPU got more of a workout due to the higher IOPS to the RAM. Either way it worked out fine with a 6 core Intel CPU and 12 GB RAM in 3 channel config. What does this mean? RAM drives can be useful in certain situations. OF course a good alternative would a pair of NVME drives running in RAID 0 but that's fairly expensive and not all systems support RAID on PCI E based drives spanning multiple slots.
@Eric_D_6
@Eric_D_6 7 жыл бұрын
Damn it, you made me think about it enough that I'm going to have to mess with RAM drives a bit now. I knew like 99.9% of this but watching made me think about it more.
@exiledvoid2429
@exiledvoid2429 7 жыл бұрын
it is usefull to cache temp files and internet cache to a ramdisk or ram drive a instant auto clean up on every reboot
@asharsiddiqui5075
@asharsiddiqui5075 7 жыл бұрын
Do the history of iOS!
@iTzStick
@iTzStick 7 жыл бұрын
Oh god.. that lightning and cat scared the hell out of me.. im running surround sound and didn't pay attention.
@duckyj4
@duckyj4 7 жыл бұрын
installation/recover disc as fast as possible.
@Titanium_Man
@Titanium_Man 7 жыл бұрын
When are you gonna do a video on Cache drives? ;P
@locknloadbitch
@locknloadbitch 7 жыл бұрын
Can you guys do an episode on password managers please ?? Pros and Cons etc... That's be great! thanks !
@Eila_Ilmatar_Juutilainen
@Eila_Ilmatar_Juutilainen 7 жыл бұрын
there is a new type of memory being develop, called MRAM which can be use as a Ram but the catch is it non-volatile. Speed is slightly slower but still drastically faster than Ssd. I work in this project do I knew about. using Spin Orbit Torque as a mechanism for writing bit in Mram. the problem is still price.
@Ferotiq
@Ferotiq 5 жыл бұрын
I’m going to use this to install large program setup files so I can close Chrome whenever I want to
@jared8515
@jared8515 7 жыл бұрын
I dont know what am I ever going to do anything with this information but I just watch these videos anyway :D
@GoldenKingStudio
@GoldenKingStudio 7 жыл бұрын
I am actually surprised that there are not PCIe expansion cards that have some low profile RAM slots on them that the user can populate, along with a battery, for use as a RAM drive. That would be pretty great. I know he mentioned that they exist in the video, but I don't see why there are not more affordable versions.
@TylerMatthewHarris
@TylerMatthewHarris 7 жыл бұрын
Can this be useful in prerendering?
@DrRChandra
@DrRChandra 7 жыл бұрын
I read recently about a carbon nanotube technology being developed which will have a DDR4 interface ( == really, really fast) but will be nonvolatile like flash. That's going to be kind of exciting when that comes to market.
@englishman89
@englishman89 4 жыл бұрын
I can totally imagine to have something like this in pci express x16 to provide zero latency, high bandwidth cache for SSD :) Eg. LVM cache
@quantumbits6626
@quantumbits6626 4 жыл бұрын
The youtube sticker in your shirt is of real gold.
@lucascochrane3619
@lucascochrane3619 7 жыл бұрын
If your cat chews on your power cord, you have more to worry about your minecraft game save; that cat's gonna die.
@thecomputernerd1482
@thecomputernerd1482 7 жыл бұрын
4:15 Did anyone else notice the blown cap on that board
@matthewmurphy2631
@matthewmurphy2631 6 жыл бұрын
What about a ram disk and PrimoCache? Aka make write speeds faster, and read speeds fantastic!
@morzone
@morzone 7 жыл бұрын
that cat meow was top notch.
@AnwarGatto
@AnwarGatto 6 жыл бұрын
I like the picture of the pc-100 ram near the end
@Kennephone
@Kennephone 3 ай бұрын
I wish Linus would make a video making a ram disk on the 128 core Epyc.
@008abdullah
@008abdullah 7 жыл бұрын
I've played around with ramdisks on my 16gb ddr4 config. I mever thought i'd want more ram, running planetside 2 or guild wars 2 on a ramdisk world be sweet
@parkerproffitt3012
@parkerproffitt3012 7 жыл бұрын
2:43 Dammit dennis
@peterpeter9230
@peterpeter9230 7 жыл бұрын
For many people this might be the basic: But your background pictures are insane. They fit perfectly. Where do you get them from?
@Biker_Gremling
@Biker_Gremling 7 жыл бұрын
Thoose are Stock photos, there are many websites that sell them.
@benjoe999
@benjoe999 7 жыл бұрын
how about to setting up only for readyboost?
@dcphillips1991
@dcphillips1991 7 жыл бұрын
What exactly are RAM disks used for?
@johngrasso6224
@johngrasso6224 7 жыл бұрын
What if, hypothetically, you had a drive of l1 cache that was a reasonable size, how much would it cost, and how fast would it be?
@BenjaminWheeler0510
@BenjaminWheeler0510 7 жыл бұрын
I'm considering purchasing an ethernet switch for LAN parties. Could you do a video on what to consider when perusing the market for these guys? There are a lot of different versions of models that have different features I'm not really sure I need.
@nongmar6340
@nongmar6340 7 жыл бұрын
I've installed a ram drive on a laptop; it has sped up the grid computing program. Not such a noticeable improvement on my desktop, though. Q1. Is it possible to set up a ram drive 'within' a video card? Q2. Would this be an improvement over a ramdisk installed in dimms?
@someitguy2175
@someitguy2175 7 жыл бұрын
tmpfs mount and file copy at boot FTW!
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