Personal Benchmark Examples: Samsung 840 EVO 250gb vs 8GB RAMDisk Partition

[myxomatosii]

In each video.

1: Create RAMDisk
2: Create copy of game file
3: Run SSD Version, zone, etc, do stuff.
4: Run RAMDisk Version, zone, etc, do stuff.

You decide! As you can see they are extremely similar. The thread (that poofed on rollback) talking about load times with SSD vs RAMDisk got me wondering and here are the results for your eyes and judgements.

Test One: EverQuest

http://youtu.be/BuW6PV2ohtE


Test Two: (Heavily Modded) Skyrim

Lame, turns out my video recorder can't capture Skyrim. Anyone know of a good one?

[Thulack]

Cliffnotes to the video? dont feel like watching.

[khanable]

Originally Posted by Thulack [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Cliffnotes to the video? dont feel like watching.

[myxomatosii]

Originally Posted by Thulack [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Cliffnotes to the video? dont feel like watching.

When/if I get around to timing it I'll put it in the op.

Video has 2 points + 1 reason.

Reason: I didn't feel like recording the data necessary to make a pure info post, and video is more illustrative.

Point 1: SSD are worth the money if you play games.

Point 2: If you can't go SSD, RAMDisk are an easy half-measure, the video includes the entire RAMDisk creation and file copying.

[Swish]

Originally Posted by myxomatosii [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

the video includes the entire RAMDisk creation and file copying.

Was the program you have registered... *ahem*... expensive?

Would be interested in trying this out.

[myxomatosii]

Originally Posted by Swish [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Was the program you have registered... *ahem*... expensive?

Would be interested in trying this out.

I pretty much went to Google/Wiki and did some research on each one until I found one suitable to what I needed.

As far as free trials to what I used just follow that link.

The most interesting thing I think of it all is how similar the load times are. Despite the benchmarks.

The benchmarks, as well as all of the comments on the forums, made it seem like it would load like a bat out of hell but watching both videos side by side you'd be hard pressed to say who was using a RAMDisk.

Top is SSD, bottom is RAMDisk. Two runs. As you can see the SSD only read/writes at one-third of a gigabyte per second while the RAMDisk can read/write quite nearly ten gigabytes per second. That's a hell of a difference.

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[Swish]

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free trials

Free trials... I admire your sense of humor [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Kutsumo]

The bottleneck could easily be server related. Around 5 seconds seems to be the best you can get on zoning/load times.

[myxomatosii]

For the reasons mentioned above is why I plan to post a second benchmark using an offline game.

One on Steam that I already own, and that has notorious load times preferably.

[tristantio]

I thought zoning had to do with the 6 second pulse cycle (maybe that was just hearsay/misinformation).

On GNU/Linux you can set up a RAM partition via the following (assume you're root):

mkdir -p /mnt/ramdisk
echo 'none /mnt/ramdisk ramfs defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000,noauto,shared 0 0' >> /etc/fstab

Then mount via:

mount /mnt/ramdisk

A lot of the modern distros also set up /mnt/tmp as a ram partition now also (in /etc/fstab it should look like):

tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0

In both cases 50% of your total machine RAM will be available.

Then just copy the files there and run out of that directory.

You can also record it for free via ffmpeg (you can use ffmpeg to record your active X server).