#ram disk

[jriverac]

Doing some RAM disks in Mac OS

This is just a reminder that RAM disks are a thing. There are good articles out there explaining the benefits and risks in detail. How you get unpaired performance out of them as long as you remember to save your work somewhere else afterwards. 

Here is a command to create two RAM disks, Source and Target roughly 4 Gigs each:

diskutil erasevolume HFS+ 'Source' `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://8388608` & diskutil erasevolume HFS+ 'Target' `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://8388608`

[thegreatdesktopcomputerproject]

RAM Disk

I’m so sad to be leaving my desktop here while taking my laptop (Ubuntu) with me while visiting home. Anyway, before I peace off, I wanted to share an article about using extra RAM as disk space. It’s apparently faster than using an SSD. I have 8gb of RAM right now, which is more than enough for my purposes so maybe I’ll try this after the winter break. 

http://blog.laptopmag.com/faster-than-an-ssd-how-to-turn-extra-memory-into-a-ram-disk

Side note: I think I'll also try running LoL through Wine on my laptop since I don't have multiple partitions on my new hard drive. I got lazy after installing Ubuntu and didn't think to install Windows 7 as well. 

[jonathonball-blog]

I just followed this guide while installing a Crucial M4 128GB SSD into my Lenovo B570 laptop.  Worked like a charm and the system is sickeningly fast.  Get from the BIOS to the Windows 7 login screen in < 6 seconds.

The only thing I did that wasn't in the guide was install RAM disk software for doing software development.  The RAM disk software I'm using can be found here, it's free and has options to load the RAM disk from the SSD at startup and write it back at Windows shutdown.