Apple’s new Mac Pro is a powerhouse, but the stock configurations ship with relatively little RAM for a professional workstation. We look at two third party options for upgrading your Mac Pro to 64GB of memory, and compare them to the standard Apple RAM in terms of performance and value.
Do you have extra RAM and a need for speed? Why not put that unused memory to use and get a logical drive with speeds of 10 GB/s or more? We show you how to create a blazing fast RAM Disk in Windows with a free utility and just a few minutes of configuration.
RAM Disks, as the name indicates, are logical storage volumes created using a computer’s memory (RAM) instead of a traditional hard drive or solid state drive. The benefits are easy to understand: RAM operates at speeds far beyond current hard drive technology. But there’s also a major negative: data stored in RAM is not persistent, meaning that it is erased when the RAM loses power due to a reboot, shutdown, or power loss. Despite this drawback, there are still several…
Consumers who have been considering an upgrade to their PC or Mac’s RAM may want to make their purchase sooner rather than later. What began as a mild, but noticeable, uptick in RAM prices during the first three months of 2013 has expanded into shortages that several computer makers state could send prices even higher and hurt sales. For the past several years the price of computer memory fell considerably (reaching, as some pundits have said, “ridiculously low prices”), making…
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