ramdrive

metomeya

Has anyone used ramdrive (aka ram disk)? Have you noticed a difference? Would that software get in the way of my gaming? Are you able to disable before you start a game?

RWB

Basically, you loose all information when you reboot, unless you have a REAL RAM Drive that has a battery attached. Much faster access times, etc... I have used it before, but at the time it wouldn't work right for me, couldn't set the size for more than a MB or so.

Armo

a real solid state ram drive would cost thoursands per gigabyte, unpractical given the price theoreticly no nachine today has enuf RAM to create a REAL ram drive




the gvt bought something like 3000 of these units for the military network

"The 3200 has been designed to achieve a 99.999% expected up time, and includes redundant data storage media to ensure data integrity. The primary storage media is the SDRAM, with three independent disk drives providing secondary storage as well as optional data mirroring (active backup). Writes are performed to all four media while read operations are performed by the SDRAM (active backup option), thus solving the SDRAM volatility issue—three disk drives each have an updated copy of all data sets even when the 3200 powers off. Two redundant and hot swappable power supplies, fans and multiple drives allow the 3200 to survive multiple points of failure while maintaining data integrity. Additionally, 3 internal batteries are used in the event of a power failure. By utilizing a 3 GB/s bandwidth and 250,000 I/Os per second, the 3200 gives you the best of both worlds; fast data access and high data reliability."

RWB

I found a motherboard today that supports 32GB of RAM I think, dual 940 board, had a bunch of them DIMM's was so sweet. Get one of those, and a bunch of RAM, build a RAM drive with that.

Would be a nice thing Too bad RAM is so expencive....

metomeya

but i think a most ramdrive programs are just meant for your temp files to be loaded, thus speed up most your system.

Also I heard from some tweak site (i don't think you need ramdisk for this) that if you have like a gig of ram you can have window load most of it operating files to your ram thus speeding up your system greatly

metomeya

so what about this?

http://www.superspeed.com/ramdisk.html

it would certain make bootup and shutdown longer, but your work during would be blazing fast,

like say if you were to have your favorite game (wolfenstein ET for me) load at startup to your ram (its about 1gb, so lets say i have 2gbs of ram) it would be freaking blazing fast loading and loading levels, besides isn't your harddrive (besides your graphics card) the last real bottle neck out there?

metomeya

oh i meant ramdisk plus, not just ramdisk it doesn't load at bootup