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. -------------------------------------------------- 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 Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml