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Fast as light! No rotations! Hyper!
by Sniffer | posted on 04 April 2002
For some people, a Ramdisk is just an awful lot of RAM configured to look like a disk storage device. Wrong! it's a device which lets you build a 300m meter long PC in a second!
"Run windows from a ramdisk," says the advert. "Being a solid state device, RAM can transfer information at the speed of light, 300,000,000 metres per second. Your hard disk, being a rotational mechanical device is limited to around 7200 RPM."
Sniffer thought this was a silly joke. "Not at all," came the answering ping from one of our sources, "I can recall not hiring a trainee for exactly this argument. I asked him how long it would take to back up a 40 megabyte hard disk over Ethernet, and he said 'instantaneous.' - and I asked why?"
The aspiring engineer explained that since it was running over Ethernet, the backup would proceed "at the speed of light" and would therefore be too quick to measure.
You can flame us direct on our IRC channel at irc.ramtops.org, join channel #nwwn during most daylight hours!
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