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    Don't have an SSD? Create a RAM Disk with your extra RAM.

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    • mark
      mark last edited by

      As part of our ongoing effort to make Isadora 2.0 the best release ever, I've been having an interesting back and forth with Tom Butterworth, who in tandem with Vidvox, create HAP. A user was not getting the playback performance he expected, and so I did some tests and I wasn't getting good performance either.

      Long story short, my lame 5400 RPM hard drive was the culprit. It maxes out at 33 Mb/s according the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test, and the four HAP movies we were trying to play require 40 Mb/s.
      On a whim, I took a stroll down memory lane, back to 1990 when using RAM Disks on the original Macs was all the rage, and created a 2GB RAM disk on Mac OS X.
      (It's incredibly easy to do: see http://www.tekrevue.com/tip/how-to-create-a-4gbs-ram-disk-in-mac-os-x/)
      Suffice to say, performance is pretty darn good -- which is one would expect given that nothing is going to be faster than RAM -- no even an SSD.
      So if you are SSD-less, and can fit your clips into some of the 8 or 16 Gb of RAM you have on board, it might be an interesting approach to try.
      I'm sure @DusX can tell us how to do something similar on Windows.
      All the Best,
      Mark

      Media Artist & Creator of Isadora
      Macintosh SE-30, 32 Mb RAM, MacOS 7.6, Dual Floppy Drives

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      • Skulpture
        Skulpture Izzy Guru last edited by

        Nice! Ive tweeted this :)

        Graham Thorne | www.grahamthorne.co.uk
        RIG 1: Windows 11, AMD 7 Ryzen, RTX3070, 16gig RAM. 2 x M.2 SSD. HD. Lenovo Legion 5 gaming laptop.
        RIG 2: Windows 11, Intel i19 12th Gen. RTX3070ti, 16gig RAM (ddr5), 1x M.2 SSD. UHD DELL G15 Gaming laptop.
        RIG 3: Apple rMBP i7, 8gig RAM 256 SSD, HD, OS X 10.12.12

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        • rainbow
          rainbow last edited by

          Thank you very much for sharing.

          rainbow

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          • bruper
            bruper last edited by

            I remember this in the 90's... thanks to bring it back

            17"MBP 2.93GHZ Core2Duo mid 2009 - OSX10.11.6 - 8GB, 1TBCrucial_SSD, izzy 3.0.7

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