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In Reply to: Music from FLASH or HARD drive??? posted by Dynaudio_Rules on October 27, 2006 at 05:27:41:
No, it is spooled from RAM in either case. This is how computers work.
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"No, it is spooled from RAM in either case. This is how computers work. "Meaning what ever amount of buffer you set is what RAM is holding before it is sent out....0 RAM buffer means straight from HD
It never comes straight from Hard Disk. Always in blocks. Data reads from HD are always in blocks.
I don't know what context you're talking about, but nothing goes directly from the hard drive to the CPU. The operating system will have a driver for disk access, meaning that data will pass through RAM controlled by the OS. And, of course, all hard drives these days have a significant amount of onboard RAM used for caching output.
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