Personal computing discussed
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liquidsquid wrote:I thought Windows 10 was smart enough to cache your once accessed files into Ram, negating the need to do such a thing? Once accessed frequently enough, it is supposed to load files upon startup into memory for faster access. I would say do some testing ahead of time, or look into making the OS work the way it was designed rather than going old-school with a RAM disk.
Perhaps write a script that will preemptively touch the files you want to access quickly ahead of time to get the OS to load them into RAM for later faster access?
Duct Tape Dude wrote:I tried AMD's RAMDrive for a bit, which is just the rebranded version of DataRAM RAMDisk. Persisting to disk periodically worked fine for me, but the max size is 64GB. I don't know if you can create multiple RAMDisks of 64GB each or something.
I very much approve of your rash purchases. Sounds like an awesome setup regardless of electricity costs!
Flying Fox wrote:Don't you need to "load" the data from your SSD/HDD onto the RAM drive to begin with? That would be "slow enough". And then you need to make sure that the system is up all the time, which will not be the case when Windows 10 reboots automagically after updates (yes, you can try to disable and that's a bit tricky to begin with). To me this seems to be more trouble than it is worth just to load a game or two faster. There are better uses for 192 gigs of RAM.
Kougar wrote:They just updated it to fix Windows 8 / 10 updates breaking registration. They do offer a 30 day free trial so you can try it for yourself.
ThreeDigitIQ wrote:I made a benchmark results video for 8 different virtual Ram Disk drive Software solutions.
Since I cannot post a link, google search for "v=18Z5k-M8Q68". Skip to 1:45 for the results
ThreeDigitIQ wrote:I made a benchmark results video for 8 different virtual Ram Disk drive Software solutions.
Since I cannot post a link, someone will post it for you. Skip to 1:45 for the results.