Does a persistent RAMdisk affect boot times much?

AroundWayOtherThe · July 1, 2013

So I just watched Newegg's new video showcasing Radeon RAMdisk ,and was just wondering whether boot times would be affected much by enabling the persistent RAMdisk option. I'm pretty sure that it would increase the booting speed, but would the difference be at all noticable if using an SSD as a boot drive as well as the RAMdisk backup drive?

Elven · July 1, 2013

yup, it does. It depends on how large the RAM disk is. Essentially, what you have to take into account, is that RAM is volatile. It is wiped clean when the computer shuts down. Therefore, the data needs to be stored on a permanent data store. Everytime you boot up and shut down this procedure repeats itself. Increasing boot times and shutting down times. The larger the RAM disk, the longer it takes.

I would imagine it would be a lot quicker storing directly from an SSD, than a mechanical hard drive. Nevertheless, the boot times would be noticeably increased.

Elven

.Jay · July 1, 2013

Its a huge huge huge difference, but just not that practical. Think of 1000's of mb/s performance, but shutdown time takes a long time. Think about how long it would take to write 30-40gigs of data (even to an SSD).

Now this would be great if you were a video editor and needed to work with huge files before you publish them. Running complex algorithms or working with raw videos at such high I/O would be great. I was starting to think about this but turned away from it (was thinking about putting a few apps installed to the ram disk).