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How does it do for performance if you throw the whole 43GB into RAM? Plenty of very affordable workstation systems out there today gently used with 128GB in the
by walrus01 5y ago
How does it do for performance if you throw the whole 43GB into RAM? Plenty of very affordable workstation systems out there today gently used with 128GB in them.
- londons_explore 5y agoYou still have to download it all... Which is a barrier for most...
- tjoff 5y agoFor English it states 90 GB uncompressed, doesn't say compressed size but that doesn't sound much larger than a large game. In the context I don't see it as a barrier.
- tw04 5y agoAs someone who was very recently on about as bad of a dsl connection you could get... What? Outside of metered cellular connections this is available to basically everyone. Even the remotest parts of Africa have at least a handful of unmetered connections within a days drive and a USB drive.
- unknownOrigin 5y agoThat's only a size of regular modern video game... the downloads of which are pretty mainstream these days. Saying that a 50 gig download is a barrier "for most" is definitely not true.
- exdsq 5y agoGears of War 5 on the Xbox is 133GB with all its updates. I think we're at the point where 100GB is a high but reasonable request for people nowadays, at least in cities in the West.
- shp0ngle 5y agowhat? the point of this is that it seeks just parts of the files through http ranges… not all 43 GB… just try the page? or am I missing something?
- unixhero 5y agoYou're missing his pragmatic and creative solution to leapfrog the problem altogether.
- IshKebab 5y agoA pragmatic solution that requires users to have 43GB of RAM? Right.
- unixhero 5y ago2021 called, memory is cheap.
- linkpuff 5y agoIs it though? We are in the middle of a chip crisis where prices are raising to record levels...
- unixhero 5y agoYes it is. In the grand scheme of things, looking at how far we've come DDR4 modules are cheap dollar per gigabyte.
- jbverschoor 5y ago20 applications x 50GB = 1tb of memory.
- Quekid5 5y agoo... kay? You're not wrong, but who's talking about 20 applications?
- jbverschoor 5y agoLook at the amount of applications and web-application you have open at a given point. If this is such a good idea, let's just all use iscsi and mount the internet.