Ram drive "stability" ?

[xjruythornex]

in few months im goin to buy new rig with 32G ram,,
ill be using ram most likely only till 20G so i thought i would create from 12G ram drive and use it for downloading files, demos, instalations etc that i just want to try.
Question is when i would use more than 1/3 of ram this way if system will be stable.

And if it will be ok what software is recommended or how to set it up?

 

[Doctor Rob]

For me the real question would be why not get an SSD (and NVMe ssd) as you then do not have to worries about Woops the power went out unexpectedly and now I have to reinstall whatever you had on the ram drive. Now a ram drive would be useful potentially for things like video editing scratch disk.. and things like that.. that if you loose power its not a big deal. Just my 2 cents.. (your first question.. if you have 20GB of ram that's plenty)

for the second question... my personal recommendation would be to get a Ryzen 7 2700X on the X470 (or 450) board though I think X470 would be better for you.. then use the stuff it comes with it includes ram drive software and such.. so no need to look elsewheres.. and has a new SSD / HDD solution as well that may interest some people.. I know it does me though I have the first gen with the X470 board.. I would setup my small NVMe with an couple TB drive to get a hybrid drive but I dont have the software being I have not got a 2000 series cpu yet.. (next year maybe)

 

[xjruythornex]

For me the real question would be why not get an SSD (and NVMe ssd) as you then do not have to worries about Woops the power went out unexpectedly and now I have to reinstall whatever you had on the ram drive. Now a ram drive would be useful potentially for things like video editing scratch disk.. and things like that.. that if you loose power its not a big deal. Just my 2 cents.. (your first question.. if you have 20GB of ram that's plenty)

for the second question... my personal recommendation would be to get a Ryzen 7 2700X on the X470 (or 450) board though I think X470 would be better for you.. then use the stuff it comes with it includes ram drive software and such.. so no need to look elsewheres.. and has a new SSD / HDD solution as well that may interest some people.. I know it does me though I have the first gen with the X470 board.. I would setup my small NVMe with an couple TB drive to get a hybrid drive but I dont have the software being I have not got a 2000 series cpu yet.. (next year maybe)

I have 500GB SSD (& 1GB black WD) but i dont see reason to dump trash files there f.e. u have something compressed (WD) u goin decompress (ramdrive) install -> SSD

 

[Danra]

You can use 1/3 of 32GB as a RAM drive, just remember that Windows will use some of the other 2/3 to write cache.

ImDisk and RAMDisk are popular programs.

For your stated purpose RAMDisk is probably the best program, however, check both out to make your decision:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/
http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk/

 

[USAFRet]

Having a system with 32GB RAM, and 6x drives, all SSD...I really can't see the need to suck off part of the RAM for a RAMDrive to download things to.

 

[Danra]

Having a system with 32GB RAM, and 6x drives, all SSD...I really can't see the need to suck off part of the RAM for a RAMDrive to download things to.

I highly suspect the RAM drive he wants to make is only for testing programs, at least that is what I understood him to mean.

 

[USAFRet]

Having a system with 32GB RAM, and 6x drives, all SSD...I really can't see the need to suck off part of the RAM for a RAMDrive to download things to.

I highly suspect the RAM drive he wants to make is only for testing programs, at least that is what I understood him to mean.

That's what I got out of it as well.
And still....why bother? It's not like the SSD is going to wear out, and sucking off 1/3 of the RAM?