Show Me Your Zen3 Ramdrive CrystalDiskMark

[BWG]

5800x/x570/3800 c16

 

Edited February 18, 2021 by BWG

[ENTERPRISE]

What are you running to create your Ram Drive ?

 

As opposed to a RAM Drive, I use PrimoCache to cache my physical drives.  

 

X570/5950X/4000 CL18

 

 

 

[J7SC_Orion]

  On 18/02/2021 at 13:49, ENTERPRISE said:

What are you running to create your Ram Drive ?

 

As opposed to a RAM Drive, I use PrimoCache to cache my physical drives.  

 

X570/5950X/4000 CL18

 

 

 

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...busted for speeding in your digital Bugatti  !

[BWG]

  On 18/02/2021 at 13:49, ENTERPRISE said:

What are you running to create your Ram Drive ?

 

As opposed to a RAM Drive, I use PrimoCache to cache my physical drives.  

 

X570/5950X/4000 CL18

 

 

 

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MSI Ramdisk.

 

I should try something else. That's a lot faster. That was my first time doing a ram drive.

[ENTERPRISE]

  On 18/02/2021 at 16:40, J7SC_Orion said:

 

...busted for speeding in your digital Bugatti  !

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Did I get a ticket officer ?

  On 19/02/2021 at 04:46, BWG said:

MSI Ramdisk.

 

I should try something else. That's a lot faster. That was my first time doing a ram drive.

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Yeah give Primo Cache a go. You get a 30 day full free trial (no limitations). I have had a full license for it for ages. Aside from speed it helps with reducing the amount of writes to your drive, prolonging life all in all.

[BWG]

 

  On 19/02/2021 at 12:25, ENTERPRISE said:

Did I get a ticket officer ?

 

Yeah give Primo Cache a go. You get a 30 day full free trial (no limitations). I have had a full license for it for ages. Aside from speed it helps with reducing the amount of writes to your drive, prolonging life all in all.

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I was sitting here thinking this sounded great, but then I thought about all of the monthly subscriptions I have and how free sounds better, even if slower, in this case. 

[J7SC_Orion]

  On 19/02/2021 at 12:25, ENTERPRISE said:

Did I get a ticket officer ? (...)

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...yes you did. But lucky you, your officer at law happens to own a business on the side called 'get out of jail free dot.com'...only £ 299.99 in annual membership fees...first ticket is free with paid membership !

[ENTERPRISE]

  On 20/02/2021 at 01:05, BWG said:

 

 

I was sitting here thinking this sounded great, but then I thought about all of the monthly subscriptions I have and how free sounds better, even if slower, in this case. 

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It is a one off payment, PrimoCache don't have a subscription model. However if you are referring to simply paying for something else, I get it lol.

  On 20/02/2021 at 09:54, J7SC_Orion said:

  

...yes you did. But lucky you, your officer at law happens to own a business on the side called 'get out of jail free dot.com'...only £ 299.99 in annual membership fees...first ticket is free with paid membership !

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Oh lucky me lol.

[Snakecharmed]

I doubt anyone will mind a necropost, but this is a niche benchmark test and now I have something to add even if it's not Zen 3.

 

RAM disk benchmarks are fun because of how stupid off-the-charts they are. I've been doing them since I was on Sandy Bridge. I also have a practical use for them as scratch disks in Adobe CC apps as well as session-based temp storage, like for downloading and running program installers.

 

The RAM disk app you use makes a big difference. When I first started using RAM disks, I used Dataram RAMDisk, which resulted in much slower sequential read speeds compared to SoftPerfect RAM Disk, to the tune of 6725 MB/s sequential read vs. 10874 on the same 16 GB Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3-1600 RAM. It's kind of wild to think that PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSDs can outpace Dataram's read speed on those Corsair sticks now.

 

Years ago, SoftPerfect RAM Disk was the fastest RAM disk app out there, and I haven't checked recently to see if anything has surpassed it, so here it is again on Zen 4.