RAM Disk?

[Tech Wizard]

Hello,

 

My SSD has a read/write speed of 550/250 in CrystalDiskMark Seq read. Made a RAM Disk and got read/write speeds of 7500/7900 mb/s. I have 32GB of RAM, now to the question. I was thinking of putting chrome + download location to the RAM Disk for max speeds. Will I notice any difference at all with having all browser/download related on a RAM Disk? I know about it getting wiped after shutdown & I also know that it can be saved on regular SATA disks after shutdown, but with longer shutdown/boot times. I don't do any form of editing, copying of files and don't have enough memory to save games on a RAM Disk. Is it worth to have a RAM Disk for browser/downloads?

[ProjectBox153]

Why do you need a browser on a RAM disk? That seems pretty pointless to me. 

[Oshino Shinobu]

Unless you've got an internet connection that can outpace your SSD (which you won't have), having downloads on a RAMDisk will have no benefit. Having the browser on the RAM disk might make it launch a little faster, but will make basically no difference otherwise. 

[Tech Wizard]

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

Why do you need a browser on a RAM disk? That seems pretty pointless to me. 

That's why I'm asking
Will I notice any difference in browing/downloads? Browsers cache??

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, Tech Wizard said:

That's why I'm asking
Will I notice any difference in browing/downloads? Browsers cache??

Browsing would be limited by your network speed. 

[Tech Wizard]

Just now, Oshino Shinobu said:

Unless you've got an internet connection that can outpace your SSD (which you won't have), having downloads on a RAMDisk will have no benefit. Having the browser on the RAM disk might make it launch a little faster, but will make basically no difference otherwise. 

[Oshino Shinobu]

Just now, Tech Wizard said:

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Yeah, not even close to your SSD's speeds...

[Tech Wizard]

1 minute ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Browsing would be limited by your network speed. 

Just now, Oshino Shinobu said:

Yeah, not even close to your SSD's speeds...

Well, rip RAM Disks for my part. Would have been fun to store games on a RAM Disk if I had enough. Was at least fun to compare regular SSD read/writes with my RAM
Ty for your help lads

 

[Oshino Shinobu]

1 minute ago, Tech Wizard said:

Well, rip RAM Disks for my part. Would have been fun to store games on a RAM Disk if I had enough. Was at least fun to compare regular SSD read/writes with my RAM
Ty for your help lads

 

If you have RAM to spare, you could look into RAM caching instead, though there's not too many applications that benefit a lot from that either. 

 

There's not many situations where a RAMDisk is practical, it's just mostly fast on paper but comes with a load of downsides and few real world benefits.

[Mira Yurizaki]

11 minutes ago, Tech Wizard said:

Well, rip RAM Disks for my part. Would have been fun to store games on a RAM Disk if I had enough. Was at least fun to compare regular SSD read/writes with my RAM
Ty for your help lads

A RAM disk wouldn't really help either. Application loading performance levels off after SATA SSD speeds.

 

Keep in mind that application "loading" isn't just moving data from storage to RAM. It includes initializing the application, which is dependent on how fast your CPU runs.

[SupaKomputa]

You wont get any improvement moving chrome installation folder to ramdisk.

You will need to move Chrome cache folder / browser data to the ram disk as well.

After the program is fired, the installation folder wont be needed to run the program, as all the executable already in the memory.

The program will read and write to the cache folder. That's where you need high IO speed.

Each program installed in 3 different folder :

- C: Programfiles - for fixed executables
- C: ProgramData - for installers, updates etc

- User / AppData - for user settings and program caches

Anyway, chrome is not a high bandwidth program, it won't benefit the ramdisk speed.

Ramdisk is good for high productivity like video editing and 3d rendering.

 

Now about the slow download.

You have a gigabit internet connection, and you must be expecting 1000mbps speed for every download.

Well, it doesn't work that way.

The gigabit speed is only applied from your computer to your ISP.

The ISP then connects you to what ever website you want.

The problem is, not every website server has a gigabit connections to your ISP.

Plus they serve the website not only to you, you must share whatever maximum bandwidth that they have with other users.

So if they have like 10gbps connections and 1000 users online, then theoretically you will only gets like 10mbps.

Plus there's more factors involved like server location, ping, latency etc.

 

So how you can benefit from having a gigabit connections?

Download 100 files at the same time from 100 different websites at 10mbps each.