Cool out man.
I agree with you, I use RamDisks every day, but HDD's will ALWAYS be cheaper per bit. Why you ask? Because of the process required to make a chip versus a disk. You claim "Physics" is on your side, well pull up a chair. You need a 0.18 micron 17+ step lithography process to crate a chip. To create a disk, all you have to do is deposit a coating on a flat plate.
Just my 2pp worth.
Cenatek makes a Rocket Drive PCI card that uses RAM for disk space. They say it "starts at $999" whatever that means. I went to their site and downloaded the RamDiskNT software. I use it for SETI at home and I ran some compiles on it at work. It kicks ass! I ran Intel's IOMETER on it and pulled 56,000 I/O's per second. That flat kicks the crap out of anything else out there (as far as I know). It also allows periodic backups and save and restore on startup/shutdown. Using SETI, I got a 30% improvement on processing work units.
I used RamDiskNT at work for a while (It only costs $35 so what the heck). I saw a slight improvement on builds, but the process I use actually needs all the RAM I can spare and since the RamDisk steals my system memory, I don't win much. That's why I want their Rocket Drive product.--Its a RamDisk that uses RAM on a PCI card which will free up main memory for compiles. I am going to get one...I just have to figure out how to do an ROI on $999 for my expense report!
URL: http://www.cenatek.com
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Cool out man. I agree with you, I use RamDisks every day, but HDD's will ALWAYS be cheaper per bit. Why you ask? Because of the process required to make a chip versus a disk. You claim "Physics" is on your side, well pull up a chair. You need a 0.18 micron 17+ step lithography process to crate a chip. To create a disk, all you have to do is deposit a coating on a flat plate. Just my 2pp worth.
Cenatek makes a Rocket Drive PCI card that uses RAM for disk space. They say it "starts at $999" whatever that means. I went to their site and downloaded the RamDiskNT software. I use it for SETI at home and I ran some compiles on it at work. It kicks ass! I ran Intel's IOMETER on it and pulled 56,000 I/O's per second. That flat kicks the crap out of anything else out there (as far as I know). It also allows periodic backups and save and restore on startup/shutdown. Using SETI, I got a 30% improvement on processing work units. I used RamDiskNT at work for a while (It only costs $35 so what the heck). I saw a slight improvement on builds, but the process I use actually needs all the RAM I can spare and since the RamDisk steals my system memory, I don't win much. That's why I want their Rocket Drive product.--Its a RamDisk that uses RAM on a PCI card which will free up main memory for compiles. I am going to get one...I just have to figure out how to do an ROI on $999 for my expense report! URL: http://www.cenatek.com