RE: RAMDisk Prevalence?

2011-12-09 Thread Stu Sjouwerman
SSD! And you don't even have to defragment that anymore. LOL ! Warm regards, Stu From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 4:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RAMDisk Prevalence? What a crock. If you have money to spare, put your temp

Re: RAMDisk Prevalence?

2011-12-08 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: Haven’t heard of the notion of using RAMdisks in AGES.  Are people still using them? I backup to a RAM disk. It's much faster that way. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: RAMDisk Prevalence?

2011-12-08 Thread Damien Solodow
, 2011 9:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RAMDisk Prevalence? On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: Haven't heard of the notion of using RAMdisks in AGES.  Are people still using them? I backup to a RAM disk. It's much faster that way. -- Ben ~ Finally

RE: RAMDisk Prevalence?

2011-12-08 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
Ya'll stop that! I can't stand choking on my coffee any more this morning, and I'm out of monitor wipes. -Original Message- From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 8:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RAMDisk Prevalence? I

RE: RAMDisk Prevalence?

2011-12-08 Thread Crawford, Scott
. Some of the compressed-air-ram-freezing techniques may be useful here, but unless you're nearby soon, you're out of luck. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 8:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RAMDisk Prevalence

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2011-12-08 Thread Damien Solodow
: RE: RAMDisk Prevalence? I backup to a RAM disk. It's much faster that way. At best, that's only a temporary backup. Useful if you're changing a file and need to revert to the previous version rather quickly. Otherwise, as soon as that machine goes down for any reason, your backup starts

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2011-12-08 Thread John Hornbuckle
I'm reasonably sure that was a joke. -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 10:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RAMDisk Prevalence? I backup to a RAM disk. It's much faster that way. At best, that's

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2011-12-08 Thread Jonathan Link
[mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 8:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RAMDisk Prevalence? On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: Haven't heard of the notion of using RAMdisks in AGES. Are people still using them? I backup

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2011-12-08 Thread Crawford, Scott
Right back at ya buddy :) -Original Message- From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RAMDisk Prevalence? I think your sarcasm detector is broken. ;) DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer

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2011-12-08 Thread Michael B. Smith
: Thursday, December 08, 2011 10:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RAMDisk Prevalence? I'm reasonably sure that was a joke. -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 10:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE

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2011-12-08 Thread Jonathan Link
: RAMDisk Prevalence? I'm reasonably sure that was a joke. -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 10:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RAMDisk Prevalence? I backup to a RAM disk. It's much faster

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2011-12-08 Thread Cameron
and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com http://theessentialexchange.com/ -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 10:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RAMDisk Prevalence? I'm reasonably

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2011-12-08 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: When was the last time you employed a compressed-air-ram-freezing technique? Must have been a cold boot attack. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: RAMDisk Prevalence?

2011-12-08 Thread Crawford, Scott
But, that part was ~serious :) http://forum.teamxbox.com/archive/index.php/t-617093.html -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 10:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RAMDisk Prevalence? So was Scott's

RE: RAMDisk Prevalence? (OT)

2011-12-08 Thread Greg Olson
Issues Subject: RE: RAMDisk Prevalence? But, that part was ~serious :) http://forum.teamxbox.com/archive/index.php/t-617093.html -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 10:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE

RE: RAMDisk Prevalence?

2011-12-08 Thread Ken Schaefer
to another disk or tape Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Thursday, 8 December 2011 11:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RAMDisk Prevalence? I'm reasonably sure that was a joke. -Original Message- From

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2011-12-08 Thread Crawford, Scott
Oh great. There you go ruining a good joke with sensibility. -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 8:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RAMDisk Prevalence? Hmm - but seriously, if you were doing Disk-Disk-Tape

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2011-12-07 Thread Michael B. Smith
What a crock. If you have money to spare, put your temp files and pagefiles on SSD. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 4:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: RAMDisk Prevalence?

2011-12-07 Thread Sam Cayze
Thanks for confirming my suspicion :) From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 3:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RAMDisk Prevalence? What a crock. If you have money to spare, put your temp files and pagefiles on SSD

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2011-12-07 Thread Jim Holmgren
Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400 (cell) www.xlhealth.comhttp://www.xlhealth.com/ From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 4:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RAMDisk Prevalence? What a crock. If you

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2011-12-07 Thread Mike Hoffman
Do they own the IP on Ramdoubler? I think I can hear the 80's calling, they want their 5 ¼ floppies back ... Mike From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] Sent: 07 December 2011 22:14 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RAMDisk Prevalence? I use a RAM Disk for SQL TempDB

RE: RAMDisk Prevalence?

2011-12-07 Thread Michael B. Smith
Subject: RE: RAMDisk Prevalence? What a crock. If you have money to spare, put your temp files and pagefiles on SSD. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com]mailto:[mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday

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2011-12-07 Thread Steve Kradel
via the web clients”. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 5:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RAMDisk Prevalence? I use a RAM