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64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months (www.techradar.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 1 point 7 months ago (6 children)

I mean I have 16 and 8 in graphics card, I have never used more than half my RAM gaming, maybe you don't NEED that much RAM.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Oh, there can be all kinds of uses.

    For example, I own an LTO tape drive. Unfortunately, I couldn't get the IBM drivers to compile on my particular flavor of Linux, but I do have a dual boot system.

    Now, Windows is a shitty, shitty OS that I only boot up when I really need to. It interferes with all kinds of stuff in ways I hate, for example - copying files. It just refuses to read large files in a continuous, reliable data stream without any interruptions from my SSD when backing them up to tape. This causes the LTO drive to slow down, speed up, rewind, which is not a good thing because it causes additional wear on the tape.

    Fix: Create a large RAM drive, copy files to RAM drive, run backup with RAM drive as source.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Just throw that in a omv server, idk what drive you have but it should be supported, do whatever works for you though

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    IBM stopped their support for LTFS, unfortunately. Which I kinda want to use despite all the drawbacks. And well, the RAM disk workaround does the trick, so there's not enough pain to compel me into investing more time into the issue.

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