Ram Disk? http://www.anandtech.com/show/1697/5

[travalon]

I kinda screwed up and my mobo only supports 8GB of ram. Planning onaround 10TB of storage in the end. I Need more ram as I understand it. My question is, if I can get ahold of a ramdisk pci card, can I configure it to act as additional ram for my server? What other options do I have other than building a new expensive NAS?


Thx

 

[cyberjock]

Not really. Besides that, those RAMdisk PCI cards(I have one) are limited to SATA speeds. RAM is an order of magnitude faster so you really wouldn't be doing much to help.

You really just need to suck it up and get a new motherboard :(

 

[travalon]

D@mn this is a new mobo.....

 

[mightyhuhn]

Core2duo 2ghz
8gb ram
Percent 5i with 256mb cache
8x wd 2 tb green drives.

Write:
107374182400 bytes in 786.514 seconds. 130 mb/s.

Read:
107374182400 bytes in 311.378 seconds. 328.9 mb/s

16 tb with 8 gb ram and still not that slow.

keep your mainboard and try it

 

[travalon]

Thanks for the little peace of mind. I figured Id give it a shot and see. If it gets too bad I can switch with the HTPC.
i3 2100
Asrock H61m itx (16 gigs max)
2x4 Gskill 1333
GT 430
16 gig usb 3.0 with XBMCbuntu on it.
Slim DVD drive