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Are ramdisks the next SSD?
Jacob Hill
Kevin Mitchell
>Having a ramdisk without any form of internal battery to prevent massive data loss in case of critical failures.
Just buy a optane instead you nigger.
Brody Thompson
he fell for the 16GB RAMDisk RAM meme
Dominic Wilson
raid adapters for m.2 SSDs exist you dipshits
James Sanders
With this kind of logic we should just put drives on the L1 cache!!!!!1!11!1
John Wright
holy balls
Wyatt Rodriguez
No.
These things are ancient news and will never be viable until RAM is $0.16/GB at least.
>Barely 1GB/s write and slightly over 2GB/s read performance on non-sequential storage
Useful for dumping things INTO memory, not even comparable to a RAMdisk
Samuel Long
>Ram disk
>micro sd raid
>some other thing on the left
The fuck is that card?
Ian Gonzalez
You DO know that's just 4x nvme raid 0, right? Threadripper has supported 8x nvme raid 0 for a while now and we could see 16x nvme raid 0 in future threadripper successors.
youtube.com
Not that anyone would do something this stupid anyway, i'd probably just improve load times by like 100ms at this point from 1x nvme.
Jeremiah Diaz
Aside from the absolutely heinous cost of putting together an 8x NVME RAID 0, and then the absolute lack of security of using RAID 0 nonvolatile storage as a rapid data point (which means frequent offloading from one storage point to another, which means tying up disk access, which...etc you get the point), the issue isn't really "It's only 4x", it's more "that's very impractical"
A single PCIe SSD is great because its just a drop-and-go procedure, no RAID bullshit, just really really fast storage. But it's still nothing compared to keeping things floating in RAM.
Tying that storage to extend RAM is a huge system clusterfuck and a giant pain in the ass, so it's only valuable for sustained, large, one-time-pull-or-push operations.
People working with these sized data sets are not doing that, they're making a whole ballfuck of large sized random read/write operations.
Why else do you think database servers always have 10 kajillion GB of RAM? Just load database records into memory and persist them for updates or idempotent operations and only release them after X many seconds.
Optane is unironically the best fit for "really big really fast memory pool".
Adam Robinson
I don't understand this optane meme. Wouldn't it just be better to wait for faster m.2 SSDs with better processors and controllers? Also isn't the samshit 970 pro already faster than this optane meme trash?
You're gonna have to raid 0 that shit anyway regardless if you want ramdisk breakneck speeds.
Parker Ramirez
based
Gavin King
the microsd cards are probably for power loss backup
the thing on the left is clearly a battery
Easton Wood
That shit isn't used to speed some caché operations on ZFS systems?
Adam Carter
>RAMdisks
Haven't seen these since the Quake 3 era when mechanical disks sucked, RAID still required a board, and people were desperate to boost their load times in online gaming. The few consumer grade ramdisk boards were kind of janky, but not to pricey. They never caught on. Now we have SSDs, why bother?
Christian Martin
>tfw going 6-way bootable NVMe RAID0 on my Threadripper
>mfw also installing 2990x when it drops
>tfw 2 second Windows boot times
Lucas Rogers
>why bother?
Yeah, I'm not sure what the point of the OP is. All RAMdisks are software based now.
Ian Collins
I want to buy an Optane but without having to dump massive amounts of money into a CPU chipset and architecture that supports it.
Making a router build with Optane jumps the price from ~$100-200 all the fuckin' way to $800.
Jack Sanchez
>JUST buy intel goyim
how about no
Josiah Jackson
>optane meme
Intel employs a lot of shills to sit on Jow Forums shilling their useless overpriced products
Samsung > Intel
AMD > Intel
Qualcomm > Intel
TPlink > Intel
Nvidia > Intel
John Gonzalez
>4 disk raid 0
lmao. Fast, until it isn't.
Justin Gutierrez
> Watching LTT
> kys
Sebastian Sanchez
>i dont understand what latency is, only bandwidth
stay retarded user
Owen Anderson
does it really matter at this point? with nvme ssds we're pretty much starting to hit diminishing returns
Nathan Fisher
That's what the rectangle is right? Looks like a surplus phone battery.
John Gray
ram disks are soooo 2008 tier
Lucas Edwards
Not really
>Pros
Fast as fuck
>Cons
No long-term storage
More expensive than SSDs
PCI-E lane limitations
Just remember, if that battery dies, you're FUCKED
Andrew Nguyen
Anyone played with StoreMI yet?
Blake Ramirez
adoredtv did a pretty indepth video on them a while back youtube.com
Mason Price
>that review includes the specs of the computer under test, including the... mousepad
serious chuckle
Gavin Roberts
>Nvidia > Intel
can confirm using Novidia CPU's all time
David Taylor
Are you fucking retarded? Optane disks are meant to have extremely low latency, not to be the fastest, they're a very nice cache storage
Kevin Perry
RAMdisks have been a thing for decades, silly OP.
Mason Martinez
I had a PCI RAM disk with DDR SDRAM back in the day, around early 2000's.
Cheaper than the SSDs we had at the time, just plug in all your unused memory.
It's funny to see people think RAM disks and SSDs are a new invention.