I have used RAM disk in the past primarily for a "scratch" drive. It is fast
and is erased when you shut down. However, newer versions of Windows (XP and
later) use available RAM efficiently and putting the swap drive on a RAM
Disk would be counterproductive. I don't have any measurements that made
myself, but am relaying info I have gathered from articles I read. My own
experience does seem to support that view.

I agree with Peter Ekkerman's comment that free RAM Disks are available that
work well. I have not used a RAM Disk for some time now since I have an SSD
as my boot drive. An SSD is not as fast as a RAM disk, but much faster than
a standard hard drive.

Good luck.

Peter Shkabara
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-----Original Message-----
From: Phillip Williams [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:26 PM
Subject: Any RamDisk users?

Greetings,

Although this is a software subject, it has a direct relativity to hardware
so I've posted it where I thought more builders would read.

 Have any of you had any experience with RamDisk? I found it through an old
2004 forum post and found the site is still up.
http://www.superspeed.com/desktop/ramdisk.php

 Apparently it sets up the extra ram not recognized by windows as a virtual
disk that appears to the OS as a hard drive and the user in the forum claims
to have assigned the swap files to ram increasing performance (if I
understood correctly).

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