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How long until RAM Disks become economically viable?
At the moment you can get 128gb DDR4 RAM for a few hundred dollars or 64gb DDR3 for under $200
Out of this you could easily make a 50gb drive for a program you wanted to run very well, something like 20x-30x faster than an SSD
It seems to me that I could be looking at a PC in 2 years with a large hard drive for storage and a small RAM Disk for current programs.
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>>57727260
FB DDR2 can be had for well under $1/GB.
$150-200 for 256GB is pretty easy.
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>>57727260
You realise it must remain powered?
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It already is, retard.
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>>57727260
>50gb drive for a program
>RAM Disk
>faster
None of this makes any sense unless you're talking about muh games. If you really did have that much RAM though just run find . -type f | xargs cat > /dev/null on the game's assets before launching it and they'll be cached in memory for when you need it without fucking about with RAM disks.
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>>57727367
Then why arent you using it, nerd?
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>>57727360
i dont think he does
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Why do SSD babies get triggered so easily?
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Why not a hybrid drive that runs on the ram memory while periodically making backups on a secondary SSD. At boot the secondary drive could load the necessary files back onto the ram drive
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>>57729214
Wow you just explained how OS disk caching and write buffering works except in a really retarded way. Please fuck off back to /v/.
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