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@apophthegm7 жыл бұрын
wait, cant you just download more ram? I did that
@jeewon.3647 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.
@hellcat19887 жыл бұрын
The ultimate speed drive you could ever hope to have: cpu cash drive. It WILL be a thing eventually.
@HeatherWarner977 жыл бұрын
But Linus... A UPS wouldn't help you if your cat chewed up your power cord...
@SpikeTiger7 жыл бұрын
wait... if the cat chews the power cord between the UPS and the desktop Power supply you have the same problem..
@brbbiobreak7 жыл бұрын
SoftPerfect RAM Disk ftw. As a ramdisk user, I must note that bluescreens are a much bigger problem than loss of power.
@jojo1isawesome7 жыл бұрын
Wait how about L3 cache storage!?!?!
@kendawg_mcawesome7 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.
@gijs_k37377 жыл бұрын
I have a huge deja vû right now. Today a classmate said to the teacher that it is possible to save files on your RAM. The teacher said that that was impossible. I am going to show him this video tommorow. The bad thing about this is is that the teacher teaches pc technique for almost 15 years😂
@HelamanGile
1tb ram now this makes sense just wish the program could save memory lane of data onto the normal disk so we can actually repeat all the actions if it crashes
@marcorennmaus7 жыл бұрын
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@Everybody90fr7 жыл бұрын
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@DigitalMetal7 жыл бұрын
Linux has this function built in. You can easily create a ramfs with the mount command:
@DanishNighthawk7 жыл бұрын
If your cat chews on the power cord you will lose more than your data! :O
@SeanJean1877 жыл бұрын
Hold on, at
@sherpajones6 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.
@VictorGIUBILEI7 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.
@TheBHAitken7 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.
@dstarr37 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.
@nO_d3N1AL7 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.