looking for a ram drive program that can save the image

[Kaido]

I remember trying a ram drive demo program a couple years ago that I really liked, but I can't find it now. Basically, a ram drive program wil partition off part of your ram and tell Windows that it's a hard drive, and you can install programs and put files on it. You can also save the image manually, have it auto-save at shutdown, and have it load at boot. I was using a 3D app called TrueSpace and it boosted the speed incredibly. However, I'm having trouble finding that or a similar program. I need one that can handle a 1gb ram drive. Any ideas?

 

[Kaido]

Ahah, I think I found it. It was called RamDiskNT when I used it, but there's a version for XP out now. Awesome!

http://www.cenatek.com/product_ramdisk.cfm

 

[EagleKeeper]

This is equivalent to a memory mapped file.

If you have extra memory it is great.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
This is equivalent to a memory mapped file.

If you have extra memory it is great.

yah, it's for my laptop. got a good deal on two 1 gig chips. this will be great because the adobe cs stuff takes forever and a day to load.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
This is equivalent to a memory mapped file.

If you have extra memory it is great.

yah, it's for my laptop. got a good deal on two 1 gig chips. this will be great because the adobe cs stuff takes forever and a day to load.

It will still take time to get the file loaded into memory anyhow. Slightly faster though because it will be copied up in bulk. Once in there, then the speed up will happen when you are attempting "disk" access.

Shutting down your system will also be slower, because it will have to flush the RAM drive to disk.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
This is equivalent to a memory mapped file.

If you have extra memory it is great.

yah, it's for my laptop. got a good deal on two 1 gig chips. this will be great because the adobe cs stuff takes forever and a day to load.

It will still take time to get the file loaded into memory anyhow. Slightly faster though because it will be copied up in bulk. Once in there, then the speed up will happen when you are attempting "disk" access.

Shutting down your system will also be slower, because it will have to flush the RAM drive to disk.

Yeah, I used to use RamDiskNT on my old box. I don't think I went over like half a gig tho, but it worked great! I'm giving it a gig this time. The last hardware upgrade I want to do is stick in a 7200rpm hard drive, but that's on hold right now. I really want the Seagate 100gb 7200rpm drive, but that's been pushed back till like summer. I only have a 4200rpm in there now, which is kind of a bummer, but it functions.

 

[Kaido]

Beautiful

I had some problems and exchanged emails with Cenatek's tech support, who answered very quickly and helped me out a lot. I ended up downloading the 1.9.100 beta version to solve my problems and it works great. I have a 1024mb NTFS ram disk drive now, yay!

 

[Nothinman]

this will be great because the adobe cs stuff takes forever and a day to load.

So instead of letting the OS do the smart thing and cache all disk access you're taking 50% of your intentionally taking half of your memory away from it? You realize that you're just shifting the startup time to another place right? Now instead of waiting for it to load after you click on it, you'll have to wait for it to copy back to the ramdisk and then wait for it to startup. Great idea! :/