Ramdisk

Post by **Class--** » Fri Oct 12, 2012 11:13 pm

Hi Folks,
Saw this and thought you might be interested. Its basically the <a href="http://www.radeonramdisk.com/" target="_blank">Radeon RAMdisk</a>
At the mo I havent really played with it except putting my firefox cache into it. You can only use a maximum of 4Gb of ram using this software but if you have AMD ram then its upto 6Gb. Also If you buy it then I think its 32Gb of ram

What yas think of it?

Class--

Post by **Nellyboy** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 10:05 am

Hi Class, I think there are plenty of free alternatives out there to that. I did a google and found a few first hit. Sounds like an easy way to bork ur system if it is a bit tricky to setup. If another member uses ramdisks then chip in. I am interested.

Post by **Trig** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 5:43 pm

Did hammer not piss about with stuff like this a while back?

Post by **Class--** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 8:27 pm

Nellyboy wrote: Hi Class, I think there are plenty of free alternatives out there to that. I did a google and found a few first hit. Sounds like an easy way to bork ur system if it is a bit tricky to setup. If another member uses ramdisks then chip in. I am interested.

Not tricky at all mate

basically you open the config window and say what size and what format you want then you just hit start and bam you have yourself a ramdisk. My pc now has a D: drive at 4Gb formatted as Fat32. I stopped the ramdisk from the config window and then told it to save the ramdisk image at shutdown and auto save it every 300 seconds then I started it again. Once it saved the image I again stopped it and ticked the "load image at startup" and pointed it to the newly saved image. Now it just runs like a very small ssd known as D: just need to find a use for it now other than my browsers cache

CLass--

Post by **Class--** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 8:43 pm

Trig wrote: Did hammer not piss about with stuff like this a while back?

Think I should use search more often

I believe it was Rasputin almost to the year ago

So Ras do you still use it?

Class--

Post by **Rasputin** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 9:49 pm

Nah, I did divy up my RAM, 12GB to RAM disk and 12GB for the system for a while. I found though that yes it did decrease game load times but having to move games in and out of the RAM disk was a pain. Now I just use 2 SSD's in RAID 0, not as quick but it is quick enough.

Post by **Class--** » Sun Oct 14, 2012 12:39 pm

Yer after having a quick look at it I can see that would be a problem as the one game I play at the mo, CS:GO, is over 5Gb of files

I was thinking more to speed up the general use of a pc. My idea is to play with it and work out if I can speed up my mates pc that I helped fix earlier this month. Its an amd rig running vista with 8Gb. So if I can work out how much ram I would need to get things like office, web browser, mail client all running super quick for him then he'd be a happy boy

Plus I wold probably do it with this pc too and take the ssd out of the cache roll and use it for linux.

Whats ya think?

Post by **Trig** » Sun Oct 14, 2012 1:03 pm

If you want to speed his machine up, and if he really were a mate you would get rid of vista lol

Post by **Vomit** » Sun Oct 14, 2012 5:30 pm

Trig wrote: If you want to speed his machine up, and if he really were a mate you would get rid of vista lol

Hmm, Vista that should be classed as either shiteware or a virus and yup, get rid of it and NEVER own up to using it!!!

Post by **Rasputin** » Sun Oct 14, 2012 5:55 pm

Best the would be to get shot of Vista for your mate.

I would keep windows on the SSD and have Linux on HDD, Linux is a quicker boot than Windows in general.

Post by **Class--** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:05 pm

Rasputin wrote: Best the would be to get shot of Vista for your mate.

I would keep windows on the SSD and have Linux on HDD, Linux is a quicker boot than Windows in general.

Yer but hdd is 500Gb and ssd is only 64Gb. If I separate them from the cache raid then I need all the room for games etc for windows and not much room for linux and its apps. That really the only reason I'm going ssd for Linux. I am only using window for games and Linux for usual pc stuff so linux would be used more. Plus I'm told not to dual boot with intels cache system running as linux doesnt like it

Was that info not from u?

Mind you I will probably try it and see if it works

Class--

Post by **Vomit** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:12 am

Class-- wrote: . Plus I'm told not to dual boot with intels cache system running as linux doesnt like it Was that info not from u? Mind you I will probably try it and see if it works

Class--

I cannot boot into bart pe or anything else with lintels cache running, the comp does boot on some, but the C is always missing

Post by **Richie** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 9:28 am

RamDisk... Christ that is a blast from the past. I remember doing this on my Atari about 15-20 years ago

Post by **Rasputin** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 4:58 pm

Class-- wrote: Yer but hdd is 500Gb and ssd is only 64Gb. If I separate them from the cache raid then I need all the room for games etc for windows and not much room for linux and its apps. That really the only reason I'm going ssd for Linux. I am only using window for games and Linux for usual pc stuff so linux would be used more. Plus I'm told not to dual boot with intels cache system running as linux doesnt like it Was that info not from u? Mind you I will probably try it and see if it works

Class--

TBH, I hadn't heard about this Intel Caching issue. I haven't dual booted in a long while now.