DRAM prices continue to fall in Q2 2015

[Zimano]

More to the point, I thought the ability of modern operating systems to cache data made ramdisks pointless. Or perhaps I am just spoilt by Linux, but I thought Windows had pretty much caught up on that years ago.

I found the most aggressive version of Windows for retaining files in memory cache was Windows Vista. I've found Debian doesn't do any better than Windows when it comes to caching stuff. Ideally, I'd like to have any file I access off my hard drive to be cached in memory. When my entire free memory is used with cached files it starts replacing previously cached files with newer files I'm accessing.

Perhaps I'm missing some setting with Linux? When I've read up in the past the only thing I could find was to install a program called 'preload', but this just seems to do the same as Superfetch in Windows.

[kalniel]

More to the point, I thought the ability of modern operating systems to cache data made ramdisks pointless. Or perhaps I am just spoilt by Linux, but I thought Windows had pretty much caught up on that years ago.

In my experience, it has. Superfetch really does work very well for me. Add pagefile and application cache files on the SSD and IO bottlenecks are few and far between.

[devBunny]

TrendForce upbeat on PC DRAM chips -- By Lisa Wang / Staff reporter

Prices of PC DRAM chips are expected to fall by 5 percent next quarter — slower than this quarter’s 10 percent decline — supported by recovering PC demand, market researcher TrendForce Corp said yesterday.

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