RAMDISK 1.5 GB/s - Alternative to Raid 0 for CS5

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cam123

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I found a video while researching for Raid 0.

Since I have 16 GB of memory and the minimum for CS5 is 4GB then


I can use some for Ramdisk.
Think about when you have like 12 slots of DDR3 with

8GB then thats 96GB of available memory.


You can maybe install windows 7 64 bit in 1/4 of it like

24GB of space in ramdisk and have astonishing 1.5GB per seconds speed rate.
With this you can edit High Resolution Red Footages, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6hzz62Z4oM&NR=1

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I AGREE
 
CS already chews through memory, you'd have to have thousands of dollars worth of ram to be able to use it as a disk. Better yet just use a PCI-SSD.
 
I just installed a pair of Corsair Force 60GB Solid State Drives in my HP Win7 workstation, using the motherboard's RAID SATA-II controller. With both SSD's configured as a single 120GB RAID-0 drive, it benchmarks four times as fast as my 7200rpm hard disk.

A RAID-0 SSD is useful not only for rendering, but for maintaining multi-GB Windows and Adobe virtual memory and file I/O caches as well.
 
For the cost of a decent ssd raid he could probably just get a real raid card and an array of HD's for similar performance, actual redundancy, and alot more space so he can actually R/W with his source files. Anyways, ram is still alot faster than SSD raids for small stuff like pagefiles and caches. SSD's are still just an enthusiasts toy.
 
Correct me if I´m wrong, please:

If I reduce my total RAM by 2GB to create a 2GB Ram Drive to put After Effect´s Disc Cache on it, it´s just all the same as if I hadn´t reduced my total RAM, right?

At least in a 64Bit CS5 After Effects...
 
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