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... about using a CD ISO image as a disk drive in win 10
Windows 10 lets one mount a CD or DVD ISO image as a drive. Once that
is done access to data on the CD is very fast. Before Win 10 I used DAEMON Tools to mount a CD for faster access. My question is, do both methods actually put the data in computer RAM? Or is it temporarily loaded onto a hard drive? If the latter, is it on the system disk (C? If it's on the system disk, since mine is a SSD, am I severely "using up" the life of the SSD? |
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... about using a CD ISO image as a disk drive in win 10
Charlie Hoffpauir wrote:
Windows 10 lets one mount a CD or DVD ISO image as a drive. Once that is done access to data on the CD is very fast. Before Win 10 I used DAEMON Tools to mount a CD for faster access. My question is, do both methods actually put the data in computer RAM? Or is it temporarily loaded onto a hard drive? If the latter, is it on the system disk (C? If it's on the system disk, since mine is a SSD, am I severely "using up" the life of the SSD? Mounting an ISO, should not affect the SSD. No writes. ******* If your SSD came with a "toolkit" program, see if the toolkit is keeping track of your "gigabytes per day". It would need to take a reading once a day, to present that information to you. The drive keeps a "grand total" of all the writes that were done. And if the program checks it every 24 hours, the program can tell you the usage amount per day. Paul |
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... about using a CD ISO image as a disk drive in win 10
Charlie Hoffpauir wrote:
Windows 10 lets one mount a CD or DVD ISO image as a drive. Once that is done access to data on the CD is very fast. Before Win 10 I used DAEMON Tools to mount a CD for faster access. My question is, do both methods actually put the data in computer RAM? Or is it temporarily loaded onto a hard drive? If the latter, is it on the system disk (C? If it's on the system disk, since mine is a SSD, am I severely "using up" the life of the SSD? Just as with the mass storage subsystem, optical storage, or USB media, the file system in that media gets used to access the files that the file system manages. Without a file system on the media, you won't be accessing any files. The file system gets mounted and then accessed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_(computing) A CD is 750MB (700 MiB). A DVD is 4.7GB single layer, 9.4GB dual-sided single layer, 17GB double-sided double-layer. A BD disc holds 25GB single layer and 50GB dual layer. Would you want that much system memory sucked up just to access a file? It is unlikely you have as much system RAM as the capacity of a BD. If the optical media's contents had to get copied to a hard disk to access the files, would you really wait for the copy operation to complete? What if you used an SSD instead of a HDD. Would you want the optical disc's contents eating up space on your expensive SSD? |
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... about using a CD ISO image as a disk drive in win 10
On Sat, 09 Jul 2016 16:08:02 -0500, Charlie Hoffpauir
wrote: Windows 10 lets one mount a CD or DVD ISO image as a drive. Once that is done access to data on the CD is very fast. Before Win 10 I used DAEMON Tools to mount a CD for faster access. My question is, do both methods actually put the data in computer RAM? Or is it temporarily loaded onto a hard drive? If the latter, is it on the system disk (C? If it's on the system disk, since mine is a SSD, am I severely "using up" the life of the SSD? I wouldn't worry too much about SSD life these days. Unless you're really abusing it (for example, using it as a cache for the HD) it's pretty hard to use one up. I make a lot of use of mine, including a couple of tasks that are a bit on the abusive side--and I'm burning off the life at about 1%/year. |
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