Best / fast RAM Disk & how to measure it's performance

[xscess]

So far I've tried Virtual Hard Drive Pro 2.0 and Dataram RAMDisk to run Firefox-Portable from, on Windows 7 64bit. Apart from occasional BSOD both runs ok... I was wondering if there's faster RAM disk / drive out there and how to measure it's performance!

Many thanks in advance.

 

[FishAk]

Unless you're using the RAM disk for security reasons, using a software RAM disk with Windows 7 is counterproductive. There are specific applications where it's beneficial, but these are rare. Make sure that if you're starving your system for memory, that you have enough paging allocated- as this could be the reason for the BSODs. Of course, assigning system memory to a RAM disk, and then having to swap files out of memory will slow your system significantly.


Consider the iRAM Ramdisk if security is your concern. Consider why you need a RAM disk with Windows 7 if it's not.

 

[xscess]

@ FishAk

Many thanks for the reply. The only reason I use RAM disk is to get more speed out of Firefox/web page loading and it's the only application I run from RAM disk. I copy (only once) entire Firefox-Portable folder in to RAM disk & disable caching. At system shutdown it saves RAM disk as .IMG and transfer that .IMG back to RAM disk at the start-up.

Though I do notice some speed gain with this setting vs. using installed version of Firefox but not alott. Out of total 6GB I assign 512MB to RAM disk and even with RAM disk my usual RAM usage (physical memory ?) is like 25 to 35%.