Re: IIgs RAM drive question

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Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote:

>A Ram5 ramdisk is much faster than a slinky card. If you're going
>to use a ramfactor it might be worthwhile just seeing what the
>performance difference is (between it and your hard drive) and
>decide if it's worth the trouble. In my case with an accelerated IIgs,
>ramfactor SCSI card and a fairly fast hard drive, I can boot a program
>more quickly off my hard drive than off ramfactor or Apple slinky card.
>With an Apple SCSI, unaccelerated IIgs or slower HD the results might
>be totally different.

I can vouch for the Apple High Speed SCSI card's speed.
When using my 1GB SCSI hard drive with it, access and
transfer is faster than off my slinky card.  Reading from
the hard drive is faster, but WRITING to the hard drive is
MUCH faster than writing to the slinky card.

Of course it is important to remember that results such
as yours and mine are done with GS/OS in mind.  The
Apple card slows down under ProDOS 8 and even the
RamFAST card does, although not as much.