Ram Drives

[jammydodger]

Well PC100 SDRAM can provide a maximum of 800MB/sec, saw im pretty sure in a raw read/write operation it will max out the PCI bus. Also a normal 7200RPM hard drive will have a seek time of about 9Ms (milli Seconds) while SDRAM will have a seek time of about 25Ns(nano seconds)!

 

[jammydodger]

133MB/sec is still faster than any IDE hard disk. But I get your point. I was thinking of just putting my browser and internet cache on the RAM drive. I could make a batch file that would copy the files to the hard disk on shutdown and then back to the RAM on startup. So I would be able to turn off the computer, I reckon I would notice a performance boost.