RamDisk Plus question

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
That would be a reason for me to avoid the product because I can't think of a way that they could manage that without patching the OS and that's never a good thing.

I'm guessing that it uses a hypervisor. If it doesn't, then I have no idea how it works then.

 

[Idontcare]

Hi, I use Superspeeds Ramdisk Plus ver9 on XP 32bit and will happily answer any questions.

My system has 8GB of ram installed (4x2GB). Windows reports the standard 3.25GB. Ramdisk Plus software accesses the entire 8GB.

As I create ramdisks it intelligently uses the ram not accessible by XP first, and only begins to consume the system ram when I make the ramdisk >4.75GB.

Ramdisk Plus has a feature that lets you have the system automatically save and restore the ramdisk contents on system shutdown/boot.

I use my ramdisk for photoshop scratch, IE temp folder, and also I install my frequently used applications to the scratchdisk.

I also run some financial programs that are rate-limited by a process of reading/writing very small files so my 4KB random read/write time is critical to my performance on this app...Crystal Mark for Ramdisk

For comparison here's the same bench on a relatively new 750GB hitachi drive...great for storage but sucks if you need 4KB random read/write performance.

 

[Denithor]

Running Windows XP Pro SP3 32-bit.

Installed another 4GB DDR2 in my gaming rig today.

Installed the trial version of superspeed ramdisk plus.

After some issues getting things configured correctly, I now have my full 3.4GB system memory available (as shown in Task Manager) and also have a 4GB ramdisk set up and fully functional. Set my temp and tmp folders to the ramdisk, virtual memory to the ramdisk, and Internet Explorer temporary file folder to the ramdisk.

Now, if only I could afford to put 16GB in this box, a 12GB ramdisk would be much more useful than 4GB...

 

[qliveur]

So how about some follow-up, please? What's the performance boost like, if any? Is it worth it? Does RAMDisk cause any problems?

 

[n0tdan]

bump. interested in results