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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!

Sniffer

"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.