I believe you are missing something....
I would not suggest that you save your models/drawings to ramdisk. Only the SWX application gets copied to the ramdisk.
If you save your models to the ramdisk, the data would be lost unless, of course. you used the neato keeno backup 'feature'in SWX.
Perhaps I'm the one missing something.... If Superspeed is continually maintaining an image of the RAMdisk on a physical drive, then isn't it effectively saved to HD? Once it's on the RAMdisk, it's as secure as the RAMdisk: a SW crash shouldn't destroy it. Once Superspeed copies it to the HD, it's as safe as it would be without using Superspeed. So why not save to the RAMdisk?
Perhaps I'm the one missing something.... If Superspeed is continually maintaining an image of the RAMdisk on a physical drive, then isn't it effectively saved to HD? Once it's on the RAMdisk, it's as secure as the RAMdisk: a SW crash shouldn't destroy it. Once Superspeed copies it to the HD, it's as safe as it would be without using Superspeed. So why not save to the RAMdisk?
so really only a power loss would kill your work right? which is a risk without a UPS in any case.
when does (or when would) superspeed actually save to a harddisk?
-nick e.
My understanding of this "lazy write" mode is that it would copy to the HD as a background process. This should be similar to a RAID 1 controller rebuilding a mirrored drive after a backup. When not busy, the system is working to make the copy.
This is just my understanding of the process though. It's what I get when I read description of hte software on their website. I don't actually have experience with the software. It's a shame they don't offer a trial version.
"SuperSpeed?s Patented Technology synchronously replicates data stored in the RamDisk to a backup magnetic disk partition. This real-time back-up system guarantees that you will realize 100% fail-safe protection for your mission critical data."
I interpret that to mean that reads are at memory speed. Writes could be slower, but the performance data they claim seem to indicate that writes are also at memory speed. I'd really like to try this.
More questions: I'd like to know why there are separate versions for AMD and Intel. Perhaps the driveres take advantage of streaming data instruction sets? Is there an AMD64 version coming?
Look at it this way Dale. Imagine a hard drive that had a 512Mb buffer and it only commits your saves to the platters whenever it feels like it. You don't know if it's now, later, or much later. And it takes away 512Mb from your available ram pool. Would you buy it?
- Eddy
Ok, I'm gonna give up on this soon but one last thing... If you're only running Solidworks off the ram drive then you're only saving the time it takes to load Solidworks. It doesn't make Solidworks any "faster". Read the reviews on the website carefully and you'll see the phrase "loads faster".
- Eddy
i have a trial version. once the ram disk is created, there is an option to create a backup folder on the hard drive. you can copy the contents of the ram disk to this backup folder, *** this has to be done manually ***. upon startup, the contents of the backup folder are then loaded to the ram disk, this is an automated feature.
as long as a ups is present, i see no reason not to have data on ram drive. but beware of the following,
- coping from ram disk to hard disk is a manual operation, if you forget you're screwed.
- if you lock up your system and have to restart, you're screwed.
"If you lock up your system"
shouldn't that read "WHEN you lock up your system"?
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