RAMDisk Guide

[Panda Man]

Originally Posted by yurimxpxman

heh. I resisted the urge at first, but you know I had to come in at some point hehehe. Nice tutorial btw I nominate it for a homepage article.

sudo apt-get gloat! If you think its good enough. thanks! Any guide I write is always welcome to be posted on the front page if capper wants them, even those ghetto mods I did!!

[DeanOlicious]

Originally Posted by Panda Man

sudo apt-get gloat! If you think its good enough. thanks! Any guide I write is always welcome to be posted on the front page if capper wants them, even those ghetto mods I did!!

[Panda Man]

RamDisk for Performance and Security

Super speed has a self installer, but the program itself doesn't seem as versatile as this. 15-day free trial though, fully functional. 4GB RAMDisks and you can use NTFS in the free trial. Personally, if you had to buy one I'd go with Qsoft still, but some may like superspeeds.

Also, the installer crashes in vista. Works fine in XP though.

[screwballl]

another idea for soemthing that you do have to pay for:

this: Newegg.com - SYBA SD-CF-IDE-DI IDE to Compact Flash Adapter ( Direct Insertion Mode ) - Retail (or this)
plus
this: Newegg.com - Transcend 1GB Compact Flash (CF) Flash Card Model TS1GCF80 - Retail

and for about $25-30 you have a small disk for loading applications plus being flash based it won't lose its memory unless unpowered for long periods of time. I would say that the speed of something like this would be much much faster than a standard hd.
The above is 1GB but for a little bit more you can get the 8GB version and have a bootable drive for say linux or even XP

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by screwballl

another idea for soemthing that you do have to pay for:

this: Newegg.com - SYBA SD-CF-IDE-DI IDE to Compact Flash Adapter ( Direct Insertion Mode ) - Retail (or this)
plus
this: Newegg.com - Transcend 1GB Compact Flash (CF) Flash Card Model TS1GCF80 - Retail

and for about $25-30 you have a small disk for loading applications plus being flash based it won't lose its memory unless unpowered for long periods of time. I would say that the speed of something like this would be much much faster than a standard hd.
The above is 1GB but for a little bit more you can get the 8GB version and have a bootable drive for say linux or even XP

More or less useful. A compact flash has a very small access latency BUT the sustained speed is much slower that a hard drive. Not worth it IMO.

[Lead Head]

Originally Posted by polobunny

More or less useful. A compact flash has a very small access latency BUT the sustained speed is much slower that a hard drive. Not worth it IMO.

Exactly, the card listed has a max 11MB/s Read, and 8 MB/s write. Harddrives from 1999 can usually do that

[Panda Man]

links fixed :P They changed, be sure you got the right one.

[DrecanDeath]

Hello, I have been using QSoft RamDisk for a while now, as drive Z:. Since it is not large enough for a game to utilize it (1GB+), I save my Temporary Internet Files, Cookies, & History to it. I use RamDisk to increase internet speed as well as decrease HD fragmenting from temporary files.

Moving the Temp Internet Files folder is as easy as; open Internet Options, click Settings, click Move Folder, select the RAMDisk drive.

Getting the User files moved, such as Cookies and History, required regedit32.

Now every time I reboot or turn off my computer, my Temporary Internet Files, Cookies, and History are erased automatically, leaving my hard drive unfragmented, thus running faster.

A defragmented drive = speed (1 part)
There is much more to the speed issue but not for the RAMdisk post.

Note: Don't try to move your pagefile.sys to the RAMdisk, it will cause errors. If you have 2GB+ of RAM, just disable the pagefile, it's faster and does not fragment your HD that way.

[Death_blooms]

would this boost speed when working on large photoshop files if i used it as a scratch disk then???

[DrecanDeath]

I really don't know as I am not familiar with Photo Shop. Try it if the file will fit on the drive and post the outcome. Hopefully you wont end up like this guy -->