If you need to boost the speed of data writes to storage on your Linux data center servers, a ramdisk might be what you need. Here's how to create one, mount it, and back it up. There may be instances ...

RAM nowadays seems to be one of the most underused parts of our systems. An average system today has at least 4GB of RAM installed; and with the advent of new chipsets - and with RAM dropping in price ...

I recently overhauled much of my computer after my last motherboard fried (on a budget, I had ~$300 for RAM, mobo, cpu, psu, case), but kept my old hard drive (250 GB, ~60 MB/s sequential, ~20 ms ...

Solid state memory has come a long way in the last few years. So while flash memory modules (including SD cards, Compact Flash cards, 2.5″ SSDs, and the chips that are soldered onto Eee PC, Acer ...

When AMD launched its Radeon-branded memory last fall, it came as a bit of a surprise. In fact, in some ways it felt like AMD was trying anything in order to not keep all of its eggs in one basket, ...

When we think of RAMDisks, the first thing that comes to mind is that if the power is cut, data is lost and so we tend to steer clear of anything that attempts to place our precious files into ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. AMD seems to believe that consumers are taking advantage of record-low memory prices and would like ...

This week at Computex, Gigabyte Technology displayed their i-Ram PCI ramdisk, which uses up to 4GB of standard DDR SDRAM to emulate a hard disk. A PC World article covered its use as an ultra fast ...

There are a lot of companies out there that will build you the gaming desktop of your dreams for a pretty penny. You could go pedestrian and buy from Alienware, or perhaps a little more custom and try ...