Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months

• sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Theres far more demanding things than games

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• glorkon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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 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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  • MML@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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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    • glorkon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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• DizzyMoth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I just played ow 2 yesterday and the game was taking 20gb of ram

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• CannedCairn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Making games often makes it nice to have 32gb

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