can we go back to using RAM as an SSD?
>>107694641sure, go ahead
>>107694641It was more of a gimmick of a product. You were bottlenecked by the SATA 1.0 interface, not to mention no AHCI. An actual SCSI SSD around the same time made much more sense, even if it was more expensive.
slightly-VME
>>107694665>pci>sata interfacelol
>>107694674Absolute fucking drooling retard, go away.
>>107694665this. if you don't care about volatility and just need to have that one shitty program not be bottleneck by ssd read/write speed, juse make a ramdisk. you don't need any special hardware to do that
Ram disks were never a thing.
>>107694641Wouldn't you lose your data on there as soon as you restarted the PC?
>>107694641With CXL you can use RAM as RAM(extra NUMA node).
>>107694641We can't use RAM as RAM these days, shit is so expensive
>>107694803You can literally see the battery included in the board to avoid that.
>>107694721Works on my machine
>>107694869>4 GB
>>107694869>R:Cute drive letter, anon. Does it stand for "Retarded"?
>>107694803No, you would lose it if power is removed and the battery runs out.
>>107694919OP's is like 2GB
>>107694641you have to wait until the AI bubble pops first
>>107694641Man I wish there was a way I could store the program I'm currently using on RAM
>>1076951042GB in 1999-2002 was ok, 4 GB in 2026-3 days is not.
>>107695282OPs thingy is from 2006
>>107695282XP came out in 2001 and a typical *just OS* install was 1.7GB.
>>107694869Usecase? Or did you just make it for this screenshot?
>>107695286The memory chips says 36th week of 2004. DDR400 is from 2003. >2006You can find examples of 4-slots PCI-RAM disk many years older (older than PCI-E).
>>107695589nta but i like to allocate 50% of my ram using aim toolkit as ramdisk for copying random temporary shit or file extraction scratchpad
>>107695731>The memory chips says 36th week of 2004. DDR400 is from 2003.Yeah, one of the main marketing things it loved to meme about was "you can re-use your old DDR memory" when upgrading to DDR2. Also that's DDR-400, not DDR2-400. DDR2-400 is from 2003, DDR400 is older. >>2006Well, more like late-2005, when it hit actual retail. >You can find examples of 4-slots PCI-RAM disk many years older (older than PCI-E).Interesting, any examples? Also there's nothing PCIe here.
>>107695816>s nothing PCIe here.My retarded brain missed the direction of the notch.Anyway, there're retarded things like pic rel some time before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperOs_HyperDrive
>>107694674brah
>>107694665Disks of that era were awfully slow, 20 was normal, 40MB/s was good.>inb4 the 10 and 15k rpm disks for schizos
>>107694674That SATA connector in the board was how it connected to the PC for data transfer.
>>107695589I use it as>Nvidia Shadowplay temporary storage so it doesn't rape my SSD with infinite writes>Browser cache>Some other caches like Discord's Appdata and cache folder
>>107696167Yeah but OP is talking about using RAM as an SSD.Doing what the original i-RAM did, you're getting a tiny fraction of the actual speed of the RAM, in both bandwidth and IOPS. Alternative flash memory based solutions would make more sense.
>>107696287The usual SSD has a write life of 100-200 TBw at minimum, you aren't gonna kill it earlier for a few tens of GB a day.
>>107694869>>107695589>>107695802>>107696287Don't really see the point of RAM drives anymore when PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs being literally 15GB/s and a good drive has plenty of writes to waste down the drain anyways. RAM disks being even slower now then that, thanks to the driver overhead, even though RAM is several times faster by itself.
>>107694641I would love to be able to plug in 4 DDR5 sticks that can be accessed as 8 channel memory for GPU vram addition. Probably via APU setup or with dGPU.
>>107696309Was Flash even a thing before 2005? all I remember were the comically bad SD cards and years latter the first 20-80 GB SSDs.
