WOW ramdisc is awesome!!!

Goucho

Goucho

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Hi there my system is :-

Intel Core i5 2500K
Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P (Socket 1155)
Corsair DDR3 8GB
AMD HD7970


I have 3 Hi-Performance discs, one of which is RamDisc <---- just for learning and testing :)

1= Intel® SSD 330 180GB

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2= OCZ-VERTEX3 120GB

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3= RamDisc 2GB

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One word = AWESOMENESSESSESS
 
Darr2cool78 said:
Some guys have brought out software called DimmDrive that specifically allows for steam games to be loaded into a RAM drive. Not tried it yet but I'm intrigued. :D
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Yes and when you turn your pc off your ram clears and you will loose the installs :D

And RAM disk can install any software including steam games without fancy payed for programs
 
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harry5522 said:
Yes and when you turn your pc off your ram clears and you will loose the installs :D

And RAM disk can install any software including steam games without fancy payed for programs
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Software like AMD ramdisk can save an image of the drive and load it again on boot. You don't lose the data that way, but boot times take longer because it need to create the disk.

Small ram disks can be good for browser caching for example. But you would need a lot of ram to install and run any modern game. You also lose the some of the system ram that the game might be able to use.
 
I think it's quite interesting to be honest, despite the loss of data at switch off.

If you have 16gb for general use and another 16gb for storage paired with a PCI-E ssd which it can load on/off.

Expensive I know but very, very quick
 
A ramdisk also takes away from the OS's ability to cache disk contents. I guess it has its uses, but I doubt it is as always a good solution
 
its supposed to write the data in the ramdisk to the ssd or hdd before it shutsdown completely

it looks nice but I cant tell any difference in speeds
 
I use primo ramdisk - dont really take advantage of it much - just use it as a fast storage drive that will wipe when I reboot ... so unzip bug stuff to them or record 'fraps' type of stuff to them and reencode to it etc ...
 
This has become a popular solution for PC home users and businesses in general now. Data warehousing needs to be quicker and RAM is the way forward. We've just implemented a "In-memory" database for one of customers for their BW system, so 512GB of pure data is sat processing in RAM at phenominal speeds conpared to before.

Great fun.
 
When you had to load stuff from tape, having a RAMdisk was great. Loading Elite in half a second versus 5 mintues was well worth it. And as it had a battery it didn't lose its data when the computer was switched off.

Nowadays? Not really sure :)
 
Darr2cool78 said:
Some guys have brought out software called DimmDrive that specifically allows for steam games to be loaded into a RAM drive. Not tried it yet but I'm intrigued. :D
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I looked at this, but since it loads DimmDrive, Steam will always show you as playing that which stops people doing the 'join game' features\ game hour counting\ ect ect.

So while it does load games faster, it stops a lot of the reason to use Steam from a community\friend point of view.
 
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