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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)
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[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 hours ago (4 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.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

Theres far more demanding things than games

[–] DizzyMoth@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] glorkon@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 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.

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] glorkon@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours 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.

[–] CannedCairn@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Making games often makes it nice to have 32gb