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 Post subject: Turbo Memory 4gb as ram disc?
PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 6:59 am 
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Thinking about purchasing a 4gb intel turbo memory module on ebay and use it as a ramdisc, any thoughts on that?

http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-dev ... n-ram.html

Seems like a good way to offload some temporary folders from my 64gb SSD I just purchased.

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 Post subject: Re: Turbo Memory 4gb as ram disc?
PostPosted: Sat May 05, 2012 8:21 am 
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mrj47 wrote:
Thinking about purchasing a 4gb intel turbo memory module on ebay and use it as a ramdisc, any thoughts on that?

http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-dev ... n-ram.html

Seems like a good way to offload some temporary folders from my 64gb SSD I just purchased.


I thought about the same but got discouraged after reading bad reviews about the Turbo Memory and how useless it is for the price it costs.

I opted to upgrade my Thinkpads to 8GB. Linux automatically creates a 1.5GB cache for tempfs, and I use that as a ram disk.

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 Post subject: Re: Turbo Memory 4gb as ram disc?
PostPosted: Sat May 05, 2012 8:56 am 
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TurboMEM seems to be flaky.
From the 3 machines that I had with it, 2 were faulty and prevented the machine from booting properly.
Removing the card solved it.
Waste of money IMHO. YMMV.

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