Isn't the Radeon one limited to 4GB though?
Wow!!! RamDisk Setup & Demo with over 9,000 MB/s Write Performance!
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is this any good????
Why are my speeds high in seq then they drop off? As many op have
A lower seq but better 4k etc
Trial version is limited to 4gb.
Full versions of both will do 64gb, & you can have multiple RamDisks.
Shoved pagefiling back on the HDD, didn't notice a difference with that, and 400mb pagefile felt small anyway.
All I have on it now is 850mb Readyboost and 150mb Firefox cache.
Am tempted to up my 1333mhz 6gb RAM to 1600mhz 8gb though, I feel the RAM could be holding back my Llano APU.
All I have on it now is 850mb Readyboost and 150mb Firefox cache.
Am tempted to up my 1333mhz 6gb RAM to 1600mhz 8gb though, I feel the RAM could be holding back my Llano APU.
It would be nice to see a comparrison of ImDisk with RAM Disk.
Trifid mentioned that ImDisk is a free alternative to RAM Disk.
http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/#ImDisk
I should have done more research before clicking buy :\
Trifid mentioned that ImDisk is a free alternative to RAM Disk.
http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/#ImDisk
I should have done more research before clicking buy :\
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Am I right in thinking that because Win 7 Home Premium can only use 16GB that any thing higher wont be seen by Windows and can't be used as a RAMdisk?
It's a risk , but as a Ramdisk is consider a hard drive by your pc, & each one is assigned a drive letter,if you had more than one, & therefore if you had 32gb you couldn't split the memory because of the 16gb Window Home memory limit.
Example, you couldn't installed 16gb memory, then set a Ramdisk to 15gb, then add another 16gb memory, as it would put you over the 16gb windows limit & the pc may not work.
But, it might work adding one stick a time & adding another Ramdisk, haven't got Windows Home here to try.
Even with 16gb memory you could have up to 8gb for a Ramdisk,leaving 8gb for the pc.
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Why has it taken so long to get such a feature intro the mainstream. Ramdisk has always been usful on other platforms. On pc you have to mess with third party apps or try to get windows built in version to do what you want.
Back in 1987 on the Amiga, I remember having workbench floppy copy all to ramdrive, then reset and boot from that. Usefull for utilising office/paint apps back then, and a lot less disk swapping. Some games you could even run from the ramdisk. The Archamedies had a ramdisk also, but I dont remember using it much.
Today I use ramdisk on pc for pagefile and downloads. I just have to remember to keep anything I find useful
Back in 1987 on the Amiga, I remember having workbench floppy copy all to ramdrive, then reset and boot from that. Usefull for utilising office/paint apps back then, and a lot less disk swapping. Some games you could even run from the ramdisk. The Archamedies had a ramdisk also, but I dont remember using it much.
Today I use ramdisk on pc for pagefile and downloads. I just have to remember to keep anything I find useful
Today I use ramdisk on pc for pagefile and downloads. I just have to remember to keep anything I find useful
You can set some ramdisks to back up to a hard drive, which is what I have for my downloads, save any accidents.
My experience - I have used the DataRAM variant for a couple of years to load MODs and addons in Arma2, which used to suffer from LOD texture loading issues, and this was one way to fix it for smooth detail transitions. I have 16Gb RAM (4x4Gb DDR3@1333), using 8Gb for the RAMDisk and the rest for the system, and if based off an SSD it is a matter of around 20 seconds to load up with the files manually, although the system does allow an image to be saved/loaded on shutdown/startup. It did help for some time, though more recently BIS have modified Arma2's data streaming such that an SSD is sufficient for most people.
Before I updated to Win 7 64 I used RAMDisk with XP which had a 3.5Gb limit and I ran 8Gb RAM, and the software simply allocated the 4Gb RAMDisk I set up in the higher memory space with no problems. Might be worth checking the RAMDisk support forums.
I'm tempted to update to 32Gb given the price of RAM at the moment, though the £100 (OCs basic quad channel DDR3 kit - any experiences/views on that ?) would be a healthy chunk towards a new graphics card.
I think the only challenge is finding an application or game which benefits from a small fast disk.
cj
Before I updated to Win 7 64 I used RAMDisk with XP which had a 3.5Gb limit and I ran 8Gb RAM, and the software simply allocated the 4Gb RAMDisk I set up in the higher memory space with no problems. Might be worth checking the RAMDisk support forums.
I'm tempted to update to 32Gb given the price of RAM at the moment, though the £100 (OCs basic quad channel DDR3 kit - any experiences/views on that ?) would be a healthy chunk towards a new graphics card.
I think the only challenge is finding an application or game which benefits from a small fast disk.
cj
you can basically load anything into it given enough space, i loaded entire benchmarks into mine just to test, day to day, firefox cache files as above, stand alone image editors would be pretty snappy on one, maybe even small games
You can make firefox use your ram without a ramdisk too
you can basically load anything into it given enough space, i loaded entire benchmarks into mine just to test, day to day, firefox cache files as above, stand alone image editors would be pretty snappy on one, maybe even small games
You can make firefox use your ram without a ramdisk too
http://lifehacker.com/5687850/speed-up-firefox-by-moving-your-cache-to-ram-no-ram-disk-required