Hi Phillip,

First of all there's no need to buy a RAM Disk program for private use.
There are a few quite capable freeware ones available.

I've used RAMDisks on many occasions and they do make a difference,
but haven't been in the position to try them on systems that have more than 4 GB
of RAM installed.

Have a look at this article
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/12-ram-disk-software-benchmarked-for-fastest-read-and-write-speed/
Better ones:
http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk
http://www.softperfect.com/products/ramdisk/
Screenshot at bottom is clearly from XP and the aggregate of the RAM Disks
is greater than what XP can normally handle.

Peter E.



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From: "Phillip Williams" 
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 12:25 AM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [PCBUILD] 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).

A "basic" version is about $60.00 and the more elaborate version is
about $80.00.

Reading about it made me wonder if there is a way in windows itself
just to assign swap files to ram. In particular win xp 32bit.

I'm still trying to find a use for the extra 4 gig of ram I have installed.

Phillip

            

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