Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Using a RAM disk to make CAT tools faster
Poster: Michael Beijer
Post title: Yes, it can speed up CAT tool snappiness (in translation grid responsiveness/large TM/TB operations)
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
Hello everyone
[i][For those who don't know, a RAM disk is when you set aside some of your RAM to be used as if it is a disk. You can copy files to this "disk", and using such files should theoretically be much faster. When you turn off the computer (or lose power!), or "unmount" the RAM disk, all of its contents is lost (except if you use an image, but then the "disk" is slower again), so RAM disks are really meant for very temporary storage only. For example, you can make your browser faster by using a RAM disk for its cache.][/i]
I'm trying out SoftPerfect's RAM disk.
[url removed]
I'm was wondering if any of you have any experience in how CAT tools can be made faster with a RAM disk. I was thinking about copying TMs and glossaries to the RAM disk (although one has to remember to add newly translated segments to the non-volatile copies of one's TMs etc. as well). And obviously there is a risk of crashes. But different CAT tools work differently. OmegaT, for example, reads all TMs into memory anyway, whereas WFC reads the TMs whenver it moves to the next segment. I'm not sure how MemoQ, Trados, WFP3/5 etc. work, in this regard.
Have you any experience with this?
Thanks
Samuel [/quote]
Hi Samuel,
A few months ago, I bought RAMDisk ( [url removed] ), in at attempt to speed up memoQ on my work laptop (6-year old Dell Precision M6800). It worked pretty well, and I noticed a noticeable (hmm, that sounds terrible, but no time for that...) increase in snappiness, both in translation grid responsiveness and large TM/TB operations. However, for other reasons, I then decided that my by then oldish work laptop was in need of replacing. My new laptop (brand new Dell Precision 7740) is now so much faster than my old laptop that I haven't felt the need to install RAMDisk.
So, in a nutshell, yes, I found it was worth it, if you are pushing the limits of yr hardware.
Of course, if you use one, you do need to have a good backup/versioning system in place, but I assume we all have that covered by now, right? ;-)
Michael
Topic: Using a RAM disk to make CAT tools faster
Poster: Michael Beijer
Post title: Yes, it can speed up CAT tool snappiness (in translation grid responsiveness/large TM/TB operations)
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
Hello everyone
[i][For those who don't know, a RAM disk is when you set aside some of your RAM to be used as if it is a disk. You can copy files to this "disk", and using such files should theoretically be much faster. When you turn off the computer (or lose power!), or "unmount" the RAM disk, all of its contents is lost (except if you use an image, but then the "disk" is slower again), so RAM disks are really meant for very temporary storage only. For example, you can make your browser faster by using a RAM disk for its cache.][/i]
I'm trying out SoftPerfect's RAM disk.
[url removed]
I'm was wondering if any of you have any experience in how CAT tools can be made faster with a RAM disk. I was thinking about copying TMs and glossaries to the RAM disk (although one has to remember to add newly translated segments to the non-volatile copies of one's TMs etc. as well). And obviously there is a risk of crashes. But different CAT tools work differently. OmegaT, for example, reads all TMs into memory anyway, whereas WFC reads the TMs whenver it moves to the next segment. I'm not sure how MemoQ, Trados, WFP3/5 etc. work, in this regard.
Have you any experience with this?
Thanks
Samuel [/quote]
Hi Samuel,
A few months ago, I bought RAMDisk ( [url removed] ), in at attempt to speed up memoQ on my work laptop (6-year old Dell Precision M6800). It worked pretty well, and I noticed a noticeable (hmm, that sounds terrible, but no time for that...) increase in snappiness, both in translation grid responsiveness and large TM/TB operations. However, for other reasons, I then decided that my by then oldish work laptop was in need of replacing. My new laptop (brand new Dell Precision 7740) is now so much faster than my old laptop that I haven't felt the need to install RAMDisk.
So, in a nutshell, yes, I found it was worth it, if you are pushing the limits of yr hardware.
Of course, if you use one, you do need to have a good backup/versioning system in place, but I assume we all have that covered by now, right? ;-)
Michael