RAM Drive = Performance

[gujuguy67]

I am thinking about setting up BTV on a RAM Drive. I have 1.5 GIG of RAM and I am just wondering if anyone has done this and if so does it make that much of a difference?

[null_pointer_us]

By RAM drive I assume you mean a portion of the system memory that is partitioned off to be accessed like a disk. I do not see the point. When the program is started, the contents are read into memory and executed from there anyway.

The only way that a RAM disk would have performance benefits would be if BTV gets paged out to virtual memory, but somehow I do not think you are using that much of your system memory.

RAM drives also have drawbacks. Anything stored on a RAM disk is lost when the computer loses power; if you do not copy the contents of the disk back into a hard drive folder before restarting or powering down the system, the information on the RAM disk will be gone.

[merrypig]

However, putting the timeshifting buffer onto a ramdrive works a treat, provided that you only need a 4-5 minute buffer at high quality ...

I use one to smooth out my livetv experience. Never had a problem with using it, so I can only assume it works fairly well