RAMDisk

So I feel like a real idiot. Somehow I never heard of a RAM Disk in Windows. I know Linux live cds use that concept but never thought about it to know if Windows had it. I found a number of utilities that will make them, almost all pay for, but from what I am seeing it is worth $50. I installed one that you create the disks from within the control panel and with Sandra 2007 the SCSI U320 comes in at 115mb/sec, this thing comes in at 738mb/sec. I was reading an article where someone dedicated 3GB to a RAM disk for Photoshop and now it runs like nobody’s business. I wonder if you can put the page file within the disk, that would be sorta pointless but I have read some games require a page file, so it would save the disk space, get the performance, and give you the page file. I’m still blown away by the 738mb/sec.

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