Hi,
with lowest ever prices for ram modules I tested a little with ram disk and I´m impressed.

Think of a 16 gb ram set for under a 100 Euro, dedicating a 10 gb for a virtual hard drive and it´s possibilities.

LFS is flying here, so is the Office package. 70 FPS recordings full speed.

Info´s I found so far:

http://www.raymond.cc/blog/arc ... est-read-and-write-speed/

http://www.techrepublic.com/bl ... tensive-applications/3430

http://memory.dataram.com/prod ... /ramdisk#download-ramdisk

Anyone using it ? What´s the best ram disk prg.?

SuperSpeed RamDisk (desktop) works pretty well. Incidentally, if you're still using a 32-bit system you can use the 'extra' RAM as the Ram Disk (e.g. 8GB installed, 3.25GB available to Windows 32-bit -> remaining ~4.5 to Ram Disk).

Attached a couple of screenshots (the RAM in this system is nothing special, but obviously even lacklustre RAM is still several orders of magnitude better than hard drives).

Thanks amp.
I´m using the trial RAMDisk(R) Version 3.5.130 here, ram speed arround 1500Mhz. To the left my C: drive, to the right Ram Disk, but max. size of the virtual drive is restricted to 4 GB in trail.
I check out ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver Version 1.4.2 when I have received more ram.

Thanks but I have a Intel SSD drive for over two years now..

80 Gb is around 130 Euros nowadays and I think it's a better investment then creating a RAM drive every time you boot.. Copy all files to it etc.

I have my OS and heavy apps as primary drive. Superb.

your Intel's SSD is nowhere near any RAM disk, tho.

Quote from E.Reiljans :

your Intel's SSD is nowhere near any RAM disk, tho.

at least an SSD will retain data if the power goes out, or the system reboots.

Quote from cargame.nl :

..better investment then creating a RAM drive every time you boot.. Copy all files to it etc..

There´s an option where it saves an image of the drive. I installed ram disk once and added the files/prg. I want to have there. All files/prg.´s remain on this ram drive on a PC boot.

@bunder: You can just enable the auto-save feature.

Quote from bunder9999 :

at least an SSD will retain data if the power goes out, or the system reboots.

so does any system with UPS - an UPS makes PC shutdown properly, and alot of RAMdisk apps have options to save RAMdisk's contents to HDD on shutdown. :3

Quote from E.Reiljans :

your Intel's SSD is nowhere near any RAM disk, tho.

I don't think the extra speed of a RAM disk above a SSD has that much effect time wise then when you are going from a HDD to a SSD. Also because you cannot put an OS on a RAM disk.

If you have to spend 100 Euro's then I still say upgrading from HDD to SSD is more cost effective then buying extra RAM and creating a RAMdisk everytime the system boots. Copy 4 Gigabytes of data, and writing it back at shutdown and also backing those Gigabytes every X minutes up to HDD to prevent data loss due to blue screen/crashes/whatever.

Quote from E.Reiljans :

so does any system with UPS - an UPS makes PC shutdown properly, and alot of RAMdisk apps have options to save RAMdisk's contents to HDD on shutdown. :3

They call such things laptops, roflol.

Install an UPS for a computer just for a RAM disk, lol. You are funny.

Quote from cargame.nl :

Also because you cannot put an OS on a RAM disk.

wat

Quote from cargame.nl :

Install an UPS for a computer just for a RAM disk, lol. You are funny.

There are thousands of other advantages of having an UPS.