Crazy ramDisk.. but what for?!

[Casper Traberg-Larsen]

I've created this insanely fast ramDisk as a drive on my PC

But i need some ideas.. How/ for what can i use this amazing speed? 😀

 

[Hawkeye22]

You can put your web browser cache on it. You might also be able to move your pagefile on it.

 

[USAFRet]

I created a 4GB RAMDisk for Adobe Lightroom scratch space.

Saw zero performance difference between that and having that on an SSD.
So I undid it after a few months.

 

[Casper Traberg-Larsen]

You can put your web browser cache on it. You might also be able to move your pagefile on it.

Web browser cache might be an good idea! I'm not sure about pagefile, i don't really know what it is 😛

 

[USAFRet]

You can put your web browser cache on it. You might also be able to move your pagefile on it.

Actually, pagefile would be counterproductive.
You're sucking up 4GB RAM, to speed up pagefile usage, for when you run out of RAM.

 

[Casper Traberg-Larsen]

I created a 4GB RAMDisk for Adobe Lightroom scratch space.

Saw zero performance difference between that and having that on an SSD.
So I undid it after a few months.

Hmm.. Really? The Ramdisk is more than 10x faster than my SSD! Maybe your CPU is the bottlenecking part then? Or maybe ramDisk are just not so usefull? 🙁

 

[USAFRet]

I created a 4GB RAMDisk for Adobe Lightroom scratch space.

Saw zero performance difference between that and having that on an SSD.
So I undid it after a few months.

Hmm.. Really? The Ramdisk is more than 10x faster than my SSD! Maybe your CPU is the bottlenecking part then? Or maybe ramDisk are just not so usefull? 🙁

i5-3570k, 16GB RAM.
Allocated 4GB to the RAMDisk. In theory, things should have been visibly faster.
In practice, they weren't.

 

[Hawkeye22]

You can put your web browser cache on it. You might also be able to move your pagefile on it.

Actually, pagefile would be counterproductive.
You're sucking up 4GB RAM, to speed up pagefile usage, for when you run out of RAM.

Good point! I don't think I'd try it unless I was running with 16gig of ram or more. Also, some programs use the pagefile long before physical ram is used up. It would make a nice experiment.

OP, here is how to move the pagefile if your up to it.
http://superuser.com/questions/237813/how-can-i-move-the-page-file-to-another-physical-disk-location

 

[Casper Traberg-Larsen]

You can put your web browser cache on it. You might also be able to move your pagefile on it.

Actually, pagefile would be counterproductive.
You're sucking up 4GB RAM, to speed up pagefile usage, for when you run out of RAM.

Good point! I don't think I'd try it unless I was running with 16gig of ram or more. Also, some programs use the pagefile long before physical ram is used up. It would make a nice experiment.

OP, here is how to move the pagefile if your up to it.
http://superuser.com/questions/237813/how-can-i-move-the-page-file-to-another-physical-disk-location

Thank you for the hyperlink, i might try it :-D