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Question about RAM Disk
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I'm using RAM Disk on Snakeoil for my Roon Bridge on a Raspberry Pi5 4Gb/Hifiberry Digi2 Pro (which I think is the right thing to do) but just wondering if I should use it on the Snakeoil machine running the Roon Server as well?
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Just try it and please post results...
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(04-Apr-2025, 08:52 AM)carlodim Wrote: I'm using RAM Disk on Snakeoil for my Roon Bridge on a Raspberry Pi5 4Gb/Hifiberry Digi2 Pro (which I think is the right thing to do) but just wondering if I should use it on the Snakeoil machine running the Roon Server as well?

Hey, Pal, I'm running Roon server in Snakoil OS, and also running a Roon Bridge in past.  Yet I'm sorry that I could not get the point of using RAM disk for Roon Bridge.  

If you fetch those music files over the local network, then putting some music files in that RAM disk makes perfect sense.  That's the case for a Roon Server machine, not for Roon a bridge machine.  

If you'd like to put some music files into the RAM disk of the Roon bridge machine, and the Roon server machine fetches those music files from that Roon Bridge machine, I'm afraid the best benefit of Roon RAAT will be spoiled.  Because the RAAT will divide the music data into many tiny network transfer packages, to minimize the current surge in the roon bridge machine, so to other noise inside the circuit.  That's exactly the same idea of Diretta Audio https://www.diretta.link/ .  Yet RAAT makes even smaller and even packages.    Shy
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Ahh, yes. I think I have been thinking about the RAM Disk wrongly. I was thinking that it was like ramroot which I have used with AudioLinux: 
https://www.audio-linux.com/ I found that using RAM Disk in AudioLinux improved the sound quality.
Quote:With ramroot option you can load the entire system to RAM for a record reactivity and general performance. This way you can run a system without drives
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(04-Apr-2025, 01:29 PM)carlodim Wrote: Ahh, yes. I think I have been thinking about the RAM Disk wrongly. I was thinking that it was like ramroot which I have used with AudioLinux: 
https://www.audio-linux.com/ I found that using RAM Disk in AudioLinux improved the sound quality.
Quote:With ramroot option you can load the entire system to RAM for a record reactivity and general performance. This way you can run a system without drives

Ahh, yes. I think I have been thinking about the RAM Disk wrongly. I was thinking that it was like ramroot which I have used with AudioLinux: 
https://www.audio-linux.com/ I found that using ramroot in AudioLinux improved the sound quality.
Quote:With ramroot option you can load the entire system to RAM for a record reactivity and general performance. This way you can run a system without drives

ic.   Big Grin
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