RAMDRIVE?

[Texun]

Question here for the masses....

The idea of a RAMDRIVE seems great. You could redirect the temp folders to it and dump it each time it booted, providing you did not want to keep cookies or any other important files. You could run games, graphics or other large files from the RAMDRV. What am I missing? Why isn't there some cheap way to dedicate say, 50 to 128 megs to a a ramdrive?

I used it once in a DOS machine years ago and it worked great for crunhcning "large" spreadsheets on a 386. But that was in the days of DOS, and if I remember right the RAMDRV.SYS in DOS will only let you go to 2 megs. I could be wrong, though.

Also tried it then with Netscape by directing the cache to my temp drive. Pages loaded faster and the Back button was almost instant due to the page already loaded on the drive. Since I only had 16 megs and Win95 (RAMDRV.SYS in the config.sys file) there wasn't really much memory to test my theory with.

I've got 512 megs of DDR and I would do without some of it if I knew it could be used as a decent size RAMDRV.

I did see on Tech TV this week where a company has come out with a slot hard drive that is filled with SDRAM. I believe it was about $1800 for a gig. Got to be a better way to do it with memory still being cheap.

Any thoughts on this idea?
Thanks,
R

 

[gentobu]

I know there is a program the lets you set the size of the ramdrive, but I cant think of where to get it or what it was called. Actually, I think it was called ramdrive.😀

 

[kd7fhd]

Try RamdiskNT or Ramdisk9xme: Ramdisk

Your only limit on size is the amount of ram in your system.

You can also create a ramdisk the same size as a floppy, run the sys command on it and use it with Nero (or whatever flavor of cd burning software you prefer) to create a bootable cd.

Oh, and it will survive a reboot.

 

[Texun]

Oh man, this is fast! Thanks a bunch. Just rebooted with the program set for a small 15 meg ramdrv for testing with IE 5.50. Since IE bypasses the HD it loads very fast and the cached pages are instant. Sure they won't be updated until I dump the files or hit refresh, but for doing searches where I often hit the back button to refine the search, the page loads in a flash.

Why am I the only one excited about this? Figured there would be a ton of people using it since so many users are running Win98 or Me with chingos of ram. I must be missing something...

Planning to enjoy the ride for as long as it lasts.

Thanks!!!!!!!!

R