Pondering...

BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseurThere's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
edited November 2003 in Folding@Home
Ramdisks. Been discussed before but I forgot how it ended. Would be a cool idea to just use ramdisks and enable standby for the hdd's. Since the OS sees the ramdisk as a HDD, you make a batch or make a schedule so that the contents of the ramdisk are transfered to a temp directory on the hdd every 15-30mins incase there's a power faliure or your OS just gets screwed. There are some programs that automatically backup when shutting down. The thing would be transfering back but I don't think it would be much problem since the PC's are mostly on 24/7 and it can be done manually. Using a ramdisk would cut power usage a bit, heat and noise.

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  • madmatmadmat
    edited October 2003
    I saw a pci ramdrive in an issue of Max pc a while back and it was a good chunk of change but it held 4-gigs of sdr pc133 and it had insanely high benchmarks and it had an outboard walwort PS so that on powering down the pc your info was there still.
    I think that if a person could dedicate a larger UPS to one of those drives that they'd be great for loading an OS to.
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    I remember that issue of MaxPC, but I think that thing cost a good $1000 or something along those lines. :(
  • madmatmadmat
    edited October 2003
    Ummmm, I believe it was closer to $4000.00 but for someone looking for killer speed or zero noise it may well be worth it.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited November 2003
    Thats not worth it at all.

    Look in the Everything About Folding thread. There is a link to an ISO that you can boot off of. Has Linux and FAH on it. Might want to check that out.
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