Ram Drive??

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Pada said:
How much RAM are you currently using?
If you're not using more than 3GB at this moment, then I highly doubt that you'll need more than 8GB within the next 3 years or so. 16GB of RAM would be nice to have, because then you can create a RAM drive for temporary files, etc.
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How does one go about installing this on Windows 7 64bit? I have 8GB of ram and would like to use like 3 or 4GB of it for something like this. :confused:
 
I'm using RAMDisk at my office to create a 2GB RAM drive.
I then moved my temporary folders (windows's system temp, Firefox & 7-zip) to that RAM drive of mine.
 
Cool thanks guys, what settings should I use? .I think 2GB will be ok since my entire TEMP folders combined =1GB also what formatting should I use? What I have done so far is formatted the ramdisk to NTFS and changed my windows settings to point to the ramdisk. Anything I'm forgetting?

As far as I can tell it seems to be working, my windows gadget shows that 2 more GB of ram is being used now.

 
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HavocXphere said:
Word of warning: Got a BSOD yesterday while trying to get RAMdisk to work.
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Haven't gotten one yet. :)

vinodh said:
Anyone have any ideas on how to do this on a Mac?
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Only works on Windows sorry, maybe try a different program.

Pada said:
I'm using RAMDisk at my office to create a 2GB RAM drive.
I then moved my temporary folders (windows's system temp, Firefox & 7-zip) to that RAM drive of mine.
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How do I move my windows temp folders over because everytime I do my ramdisk doesn't startup when I restart and to open it I have to move my windows temp folders back to the hard drive.

Also is it possible to change the location of my pagefile over onto the ramdisk, or is that a bad idea?
 
ponder said:
http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/23/create-a-ram-disk-in-mac-os-x/

But seeing how most Mac users are allergic to the CLI maybe look at these:
http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/14/make-a-ram-disk-easily-with-tmpdisk-for-mac-os-x/
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToUseARAMDisk.html
http://boredzo.org/make-ram-disk/
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Thankfully, I don't suffer from that allergy. My first PC was preloaded with DOS 6.22. I learn't how to use DOS and have been apply that knowledge ever since.

My knowledge on Macs is a whole different story. Got a MacBook a month or two ago and i'm learning new stuff every day.

Thanks for that info. Really appreciate it.
 
I used to play F1GP, in DOS 6.22 on my old 486. I had to make a RAM disk for a telemetry tool. Made a batch file that ran every time I opened F1GP. Worked perfectly.
 
vinodh said:
Since RAM is relatively cheap now, and the amount needed for temp files is small, its a lot more cost effective.
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Once you've convinced your OS where to stash stuff maybe. Dunno, just sounds like asking for trouble with a modern (bulky) OS.
 
Thats the part i'm still investigating. What would be ideal is if I could convince OS X to place all its temp stuff in the RAM drive, and continue doing that after a restart. Only temp files, not the saved files. What i've found so far says that I must place stuff there e.g.. photos, then remove it after editing or it will be lost after rebooting. Might not be worth the effort.
 
NomNom said:
Also is it possible to change the location of my pagefile over onto the ramdisk, or is that a bad idea?
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Isn't the page file in use only when you run out of RAM? If so, then writing to a RAM-based page file would probably be slower than just writing straight to RAM.
 
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