Ramdisk

shloomper · Post by **shloomper** » Mon Dec 24, 2001 8:10 am

Really nice
This 1 creates a virtual hard disk on the computer's RAM
very low latency when using samples stored on that drive...

http://www.superspeed.com/ramdisk.html

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Mon Dec 24, 2001 9:38 pm

Cool! I used it in older OS'es, didn't know it still existed

shloomper · Post by **shloomper** » Tue Jan 01, 2002 1:11 am

With enough RAM on the machine.....one can install windows on the ramdisk and that is U-N-R-E-A-L!!!
works 30Xfaster

remixme · Post by **remixme** » Tue Jan 01, 2002 8:45 am

Just out of purile interest?
How would one go about installing windows into a ramdrive?

shloomper · Post by **shloomper** » Tue Jan 01, 2002 11:44 am

Havnt tried it (not enough ram). Im sure its possible though, this small article describes how to do it with smaller applications...

Working with your application totally in RAM
By George Hawrysch, Ph.D.

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shloomper · Post by **shloomper** » Wed Jan 02, 2002 1:15 am

the general idea is to make a bootable image from your system partition and use a script to boot...
of course 1 will need roughly 3gb of ram for this, but things would be different if you think 98lite micro weights about 70mb..
imagine this...running win98lite micro from the ram.....this must be ~ fast~ (:
A quote from superspeed's site:
"....Other techniques like caching your page file and placing the Operating System itself into RAM are also explained in other articles on this site...."
Interesting uses of RamDisk

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ohmelas · Post by **ohmelas** » Tue Feb 05, 2002 6:02 am

Okay Guys,

Are there any other real programs out there that you can buy or download that make this idiot proof for a guy like me?

Gordon Gekko · Post by **Gordon Gekko** » Thu Feb 07, 2002 4:18 am

#ééç@%!Gonna try this tonight, but shloomper, why do you say we need 3gb of ram to make it work? they are recommending 256megs

Gordon Gekko · Post by **Gordon Gekko** » Thu Feb 07, 2002 5:16 am

err stupid me!! this thread got me excited like a kid and well aren't we close to running xp completely on RAM?

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sun Feb 10, 2002 12:02 pm

I've tried out a similiar product under Win98 and was quite surprised that there wasn't a significant difference to the 'reference' physical harddisk recording I did. Can a driver be programmed that it's slower than moving mechanical parts?
Btw this was a slow 5400 disk.

janila · Post by **janila** » Sat May 04, 2002 1:49 pm

When the OS is running it is mostly located in the memory. This is what's done in startup. It only changes the necessary components when doing different tasks. The copy process from the harddisk doesn't take that long and all the processing is done in RAM. Therefore running the OS completely from RAM woulnd't be that useful. I'm not certain thou.

remixme · Post by **remixme** » Sat May 04, 2002 3:23 pm

Windows Xp, has a function that can force all the core system files to me kept in memory say if you have 540+mb of ram.
I've tried it It gives a slight performance increase.
You need a program like tweakxp to do it though. Point is the makers of windoze have caught on.

cook · Post by **cook** » Sun May 05, 2002 5:17 am

Had a look at the site.
I think only the start of programs will be faster. Working in those programs is the same! It's like you have a program in autostart - when you need it, it's already open!