RAMdisk

passey89 · 14 Sep 2012 at 07:06

I have 16GB of RAM i don't think it ever uses even 6GB.

If i was to setup a 6GB RAMdisk for some pagefiling and probably firefox, photoshop install would I benefit from this?

passey89 · 14 Sep 2012 at 09:17

cool thx for tht will give it a go when i get home

passey89 · 14 Sep 2012 at 18:52

Nightglow said:
I run 32gb of memory split 12 for pc, 20gb for ramdisk, ramdrive use it for firefox cache, temp files,etc, plus as a work area for photoshop.
Also ram drives are cleared when shutting down, so anything personal is gone for ever, but you can 'Save Disk Image on Shutdown' to your hard disk.
This is my favourite software I use for a ramdisk: http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk?
Dataram do a free version which allows you to make a 4gb ramdisk, so give a try.

See this thread.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18395046&highlight=ramdisk

Also search on this forum plenty of threads on ram drives, ram disks.

Thanks just set it up have done an 8GB Ramdisk. Set it to use it for page filing, windows temp folders and interent explorer cache.

Anything else I can put on it to stop writes to my SSD's?

passey89 · 14 Sep 2012 at 20:17

Crucial M4's 128GB's In RAID 0 speeds

RAMdisk

passey89 · 14 Sep 2012 at 21:16

Nightglow said:
I know peeps who have moved their Cookies Directory to a ram drive, but it involves tweaking the registry, but it's something I have never tried.

Firefox cache is easy to move, but Chrome is a little bit harder to do.

i only use internet explorer tbh and i did that 1 easily.

have noticed a bit of speed up and stuff but deffo slower boot and shutdown not really bothered though.

as long as it takes writes off my ssd im not bothered