Use ram as hard drive cache ?

[johnsmith221]

Hi,


I have a recently built CPU with a 128gb M4 boot/program drive and 1tb WD Caviar green storage drive. I also have 16gb ram (Just because it was cheap)...

Anyway - I was wondering since my storage drive only has 32mb cache and is a green drive it is a bit slow, Would it be possible to use some of my extra ram as hard drive cache ? i have plenty to spare.

My thinking was if i have 1-2gb ram used as hard drive cache it would make my storage drive super fast because it would hardly ever need to read/write and the first 1-2gb of any data transfer would effectively be almost instant...

Any thoughts? is this even possible?

 

[vision3001]

This is what I use : http://www.superspeed.com/desktop/supercache.php Here's one of my quotes from another thread:

With this program you can assign as many RamCache's to as many hard drives as you want (meaning one cache @ the size of your choosing pr each HD).

I've been using Supercache since 2004 (Supercache v2)... back then for my Thinkpad running Windows XP. Have been a faithful customer from XP to Windows 8.

Previously in 2012, I've enabled the lazywrite on my C drive without problems... and I did the same when I got a new notebook about 3 weeks back. However, to my horror, Supercache (during trial version) did some serius damage to my Windows 8 system files as well as recovery partition! Sent my unit back for factory reset. Since then, I'm still registered for Supercache, where my C drive is enabled without lazywrite and my D drive where I kept my data is enabled with 5secs lazywrite.

It is understandable for those who are not familar with Supercache software to think that it is yet another hard disk caching software, no difference for Windows 8 hard disk caching software - FYI, Windows 8 hard disk caching software has a similar lazywrite feature, it's under the hard disk -> Properties -> "Write-caching policy" -> "Enable write caching on the device".

However, Superspeed performance most definitely outperforms Windows hard disk caching implementation from XP to 8. Hope that Windows 9 or future version will simply choose to implement Supercache-like hard disk caching.

Below are some benchmarks for your reference, see http://i.imgur.com/RfGdxL5.png

 

[Idonno]

Yea, It absolutely boggles the mind that people that refuse to even try Supercache can be so sure it doesn't work. The same people might also realize that other windows features and applications might be out preformed by 3rd party apps but, they blindly refuse to believe that any thing could outperform windows disk caching.

Some have tried other disk caching software in the past and they also seem to be blind to the fact that all software isn't created equal.