SD Syzygy

[AdminX]

Would this be good enough for Syzygy 3, 4, 5 tablebases?




Or should I go faster?

[myfish]

An interesting idea. I know some have stored databases on cards.

I'm not sure how intensive the data transfer would need to be to make the concept workable?

[zullil]

An interesting idea. I know some have stored databases on cards.

I'm not sure how intensive the data transfer would need to be to make the concept workable?

The 3-4-5-man files total less than 1 GB. I assume the data would be cached in RAM quickly, so little data-reading would be done from the card.

[AdminX]

An interesting idea. I know some have stored databases on cards.

I'm not sure how intensive the data transfer would need to be to make the concept workable?

Yeah, and I meant 3,4,5 and 6 piece tablebases.

[zullil]

An interesting idea. I know some have stored databases on cards.

I'm not sure how intensive the data transfer would need to be to make the concept workable?

Yeah, and I meant 3,4,5 and 6 piece tablebases.

Then get an SSD for best performance.

[AdminX]

An interesting idea. I know some have stored databases on cards.

I'm not sure how intensive the data transfer would need to be to make the concept workable?

Yeah, and I meant 3,4,5 and 6 piece tablebases.

Then get an SSD for best performance.

I have a SSD external hooked up already. Wanted something smaller for when I take my laptop on the road.

[zullil]

Wanted something smaller for when I take my laptop on the road.

OK. I use this for portability.

https://www.visiontek.com/solid-state-d ... etail.html
Works well, though a long search tends to cause it to heat up and then throttle down its read-speed.

[MikeB]

My $02., provided you have enough RAM, just put the rtbw on a ram disk. Perfect application for use of a Ram Disk. I have the system auto create ram disk and copy the rtbw files on startup to RAM Disk- takes less than 1GB of RAMand 100x faster than solid state. Also do the same for EGTBS. No slow down at all using Stockfish or Crafty.

This is all on a Mac.

edit: Only using 5 man table bases. I could put 6 on RAM if wasn't using the RAM for EGTBs so elected to go with 5 instead since I can fit Syzygy, EGTB and Crafty opening book on an 8GB Ramdisk.

[syzygy]

My $02., provided you have enough RAM, just put the rtbw on a ram disk.

Not a good idea. Better leave them on hdd and let the system swap into RAM those parts that are actually needed. If you put them in a RAM disk, they'll eat memory twice (once in the RAM disk, once in the page cache).

[Dirt]

Yeah, and I meant 3,4,5 and 6 piece tablebases.

That makes more sense.

Since the files are compressed the CPU has to do some work, which slows things down. I would expect the slower one would be almost as good as the faster one, as long as there are no problems like slowing down from getting too hot.