RAMDisks

[king_maliken]

Ok briefly, I need to know if having a 8GB or 16GB (depending if I can have a single dim or if it has to be two) RAMdisk is worth the hassle? To be honest I know very little of RAMdisks I have not had much time to research it, although I know that certain applications don't even support it; I've contacted the support staff of the applications I desire to use and they will get back to me (or so they say).
-With my line of work (no, I don't just game) often enough I bring my work home, the software used comprise of 3ds Max, ASCEND and Chemical Workbench. All very demanding in CPU, RAM, GPU and HDD (less 3ds Max, it's a pretty light software). One of my biggest concern is that when I do run certain simulation I max out my 32GB of RAM so by having a RAMdisk I may actually lower my efficiency.
-This would also be temporary, I'm currently building an actual beast not just a light work machine as I currently have.

Thank you

 

[nikorr]

Ok briefly, I need to know if having a 8GB or 16GB (depending if I can have a single dim or if it has to be two) RAMdisk is worth the hassle? To be honest I know very little of RAMdisks I have not had much time to research it, although I know that certain applications don't even support it; I've contacted the support staff of the applications I desire to use and they will get back to me (or so they say).
-With my line of work (no, I don't just game) often enough I bring my work home, the software used comprise of 3ds Max, ASCEND and Chemical Workbench. All very demanding in CPU, RAM, GPU and HDD (less 3ds Max, it's a pretty light software). One of my biggest concern is that when I do run certain simulation I max out my 32GB of RAM so by having a RAMdisk I may actually lower my efficiency.
-This would also be temporary, I'm currently building an actual beast not just a light work machine as I currently have.

Thank you

U don't have to start the RAMdisc every time,

so u can use the RAM alost all the time : )

 

[RetiredChief]

Free (for upto a 4 Gig Ramdrive) so try it.
http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk
For over 4 gigs it's only $15.

As a Ramdrive it works great. You can set it to load on boot, and save on shutdown. Or disable start up and use when needed.
For Disk speeds it blows the doors off of a FAST SSD.

 

[king_maliken]

Well I'll give it a world, see what happens. Thx guys.

 

[king_maliken]

Best answer selected by king_maliken.

 

[nikorr]

When I transfer 2GB file from the RAMdisc to my 2TB HDD it starts high around 1.2GB/s the transfer speed.

Than it goes down of course, but it takes like one, two done! U gonna love it!