AMD Pitches Free RAMDisk Trial
AMD has begun promoting its partnership with Ramdisk, a developer of memory solutions as well as the Ramdisk Software, which enables PC users to allocate RAM as a virtual RAM drive.
There is a free "trial" offer to download the software, though the software appears to be the freeware version (without a time limit) of Ramdisk that is offered on Ramdisk's website, anyway.
However, there is a twist as those users who run AMD-branded memory can extended the virtual Ramdisk to 6 GB, instead of just 4 GB. If you want to go beyond 4 or 6 GB, you will have to purchase the personal version of the software, which is available for $19.
AMD promises that users could see a speedup of up to 1,700 percent when compared to HDD performance and achieve data transfer rates of up to 25,600 MB/s with DDR3-1600 memory. These are, of course, theoretical values.
Store all your game servers on the drive.
Watch as nobody complains about performance or map load times. :3 Until a power outage wipes it clean and you lose your servers. lol.
Whenever I play online I boast about how the server loads slower than my machine does.
But if someone did this, I'd be dumbfounded by the load times. lol.
Store all your game servers on the drive.
Watch as nobody complains about performance or map load times. :3 Until a power outage wipes it clean and you lose your servers. lol.
Whenever I play online I boast about how the server loads slower than my machine does.
But if someone did this, I'd be dumbfounded by the load times. lol.
I don't know why I had issues with RAMDisk, perhaps a driver or hardware issue. Whatever it was, I can live without RAMDisk for a while (at least until I scrape together the money for an SSD).
It might load a game even faster then an ssd drive but with out a decent graphics card its pointless not to mention your direct x files are stored in a seperate folder so installing a game on a ram disk is rather hard to do ..
ahhhh, got it. Didn't know that. Thanks!
If ur running servers like this then you will have UPS and battery backed up RAM(the RAM maintains it's contents and refresh until power is restored)
Id like to also see a RAM drive that mirror's the data to a drive. so there's a back up.
Primo Ramdisk has image mirroring so you never have to worry about power outages wiping your data. In addition to automatically loading your ramdisk data at startup, it has options to update the mirror at an interval of your choosing, or you can choose realtime mirroring.