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Saw it on Steam's store, was wondering if anyone has used that or anything like it before, and is it worth 29 bucks? I have 32gb ddr3 1600, and my peak usage was only in the 40-50% range.
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Outside of games, it normally only matters when loading/saving a file or starting up a program.
Won't do shit otherwise, though.
Because, you know, an SSD is basically non-volatile RAM.
Edit: To make that clearer, it will be a lot faster than an SSD in the same way SSD is faster than HDD. The main difference is having to load whatever you need from the disk into RAM, and copy things back and forth as necessary, but a good program (I don't know much about Dimmdrive specifically) should be able to manage that pretty well.
I wouldn't really consider using a ramdisk for normal personal use. For most games, you'd theoretically notice faster load times, but load times with an SSD already tend to be very fast and actual performance after loading is usually not much affected by I/O operations (since developers know that disk access is extraordinarily slow, they're not going to write a game where realtime performance is dependent on it).
Ramdisks can be great for servers though. When I was managing a Minecraft server, we put the (pretty gigantic) map files into RAM and it was a very noticeable improvement, particularly when people were moving quickly and chunks had to be loaded faster than the developers really accounted for in the game's design.
If you're not using the RAM though, I guess it couldn't hurt. No point in wasting RAM. I'm somewhat surprised though that you would have so much unused ram - modern OSes use RAM to cache files and, while 32GB is a lot, I would imagine it would still fill up so long as you don't reboot too often. And, actually, this very advance in memory management makes ramdisks less useful: a lot of the time things are already being stored in RAM anyway.
I don't think anything of this nature would benefit playing Achaea.
I would also say that a SSD hard drive is by far the better option here, and you'll get roughly the same space per $, without having to worry about not having access to it without Internet.
its a cool tool, I just wouldn't recommend it for gaming or most personal uses.
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