In Reply to: An easy test for SSD vs. HD vs. RAM Disk posted by Scrith on February 14, 2010 at 12:46:03:
If something's stored in a Ramdisk that doesn't mean it doesn't then interact with other hardware on it's way out of the PC. As I said I'm interested in timing issues not outright speed. Speed isn't an issue when you're transferring cd quality material for example, sequential reads are at 200+MB/sec on my SSD HD. I've set up a Ramdisk at times, also for example set up foobar to buffer whole files. You get subtle differences same as if you source the data from wired network, USB, wireless, HD etc etc. I'm talking about the interaction of RAM and cached/paged memory. Random read and write performance is much slower in a PC. Have you tried adding Readyboost devices to Vista or W7 to buffer paging, can you comment on what you hear?
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