Re: How well do you like your RamFast card?

[fmlin@netcom.com (Fist of Fury)]

>What's the actual performance boost if I get 1meg instead of 256k?  I
>have rarely seen any MSDOG machines with more than 256k cache, the Mac
>O/S is recommended to have 128k or 256k, and GS/OS is supposed to have
>something like 64k (I think, don't flame me please).

With 1mb cache, you can see speed boost two ways.

1. If your HD is very fast, and currently is reach a bottleneck; your HD
's tranfer rate is so high that 256k cache gets filled easily.

2. If the application your running can find what it's looking for in the
cache.  RF's cache isn't really smart, it basically just keep a copy
of data around.

In anyway, 1mb cache isn't too big of a deal...  Save the ~$35 for some
thing else...

>AppleWorks Classic flies as it is, it takes about 13 seconds from double-
>click from finder to loading timeout stuff and seeing main menu.  Will
>1meg of cache give me a loading time of 4 seconds?

You won't see speed boost like that...  At best you can shave couple of
seconds off.  A fast accelerator will help more.

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frank m. lin
fmlin@netcom.com