Alan McKinnon schrieb: >> you could regularly measure your disk speed by coping huge amounts of >> data to a second ram-disk, and back. Then you have a good knowledge of >> read and write speed of your hdd :-)
Ah, yes, that's a serious thing to do ;-) >> I often use the ram disk for creating iso images before burning them to >> dvd/cd. This is a lot faster than doing this on an hdd. Good idea. Will try that now as I got my 8 gigs already ... > Just make sure the total amount of data is significantly larger than the > amount of RAM, to negate the effect of in-RAM caching. A CD .iso for example > can easily be cached in RAM as well as have the copy too. The write to hdd > will be almost instant the second time :-) Stefan
