free ramdisk type program for winXP 32 bit?

[BlahBlahYouToo]

anyone have any recommendations?

 

[Nothinman]

Avoid RAMdisks?

 

[KoolDrew]

Why do you feel the need to use a RAMdisk?

 

[Sam25]

Originally posted by: KoolDrew
Why do you feel the need to use a RAMdisk?

I would ask the same question, why?

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: Sam25

Originally posted by: KoolDrew
Why do you feel the need to use a RAMdisk?

I would ask the same question, why?

A RAM disk is faster than a physical drive.
Some programs dump work/scratch files to a disk and do I/O on those files.
If those files were in memory, (RAM disk) it would be a lot faster.

Some programs are locked into a given design configuration and can not be modified to utilize more memory.

 

[Kwatt]

I use "RRamdisk.sys"

I use it to cache all the temp files Firefox likes to write to disk.
128 MB is plenty.

 

[Nothinman]

Some programs are locked into a given design configuration and can not be modified to utilize more memory.

Those programs should also only read the files from disk initially, after that they'll be in the OS's filesystem cache and won't hit disk unless there's a write (which will still cached) or the OS decided something else would make more sense in memory.

 

[zenguy]

Even if "Write Cache" is enabled ( Generally a Bad Idea for a General Purpose Computer in the 1st Place ), it will still be frequently flushing the cache to disk.

RAM Disks are still perfect for use by some applications depending on how they are written.

 

[Nothinman]

Even if "Write Cache" is enabled ( Generally a Bad Idea for a General Purpose Computer in the 1st Place ), it will still be frequently flushing the cache to disk.

The write cache on the disk is separate from the filesystem cache, but yes changes will be written to disk periodically but that doesn't mean the cached copy will be evicted.