Which RAMDisk tools have dynamic allocation?

[Jonathanese]

I am currently using Primo Ramdisk, and there is a major feature it includes that I don't see anywhere else (except ImDisk, maybe?).

Dynamic Allocation.

The idea is that, for instance, if you have an 8GB ramdisk, but are only using 100MB of it, you only use 100MB of RAM plus a bit of overhead. This feature is an absolute MUST and should be standard across the industry by now, but it seems like it's sort of an afterthough, and the feature is rarely mentioned on websites. ImDisk didn't mention it (Had to look in reviews), I don't think Primo mentioned it. Yet it is SO ESSENTIAL to the functionality.

I normally use less than 100MB on my drive, for instance, but it often spikes to several GB when decompressing, downloading, or other heavy use of the TEMP folder. So I have mine set to 16GB, with 8GB on RAM and 8GB on my SSD to handle overflow. If I were to use most of the software out there, I would be using 8GB of RAM constantly, while only filling it with a few MB.


So what are all the programs you know of that have dynamic allocation?

 

[Kraszmyl]

Only ones I know of are the two you already mentioned plus Vsuite.

Honestly most people I know who actively use ram drives need more than the 16/32g you can get out of a basic system. Because you need at least 12g for general OS use which leaves only 4-20 for the ram drive which isn't enough for many things. Example is your 8g/8/g split between the ssd/ram drive.

Also doesn't help you can pickup 64-128g of ram fairly cheaply for 1366/2011 (1366 is absolutely dirt cheap right now)or if youre stuck on a 115x/amd3 setup you can get a small stack of 60-120g ssds to toss in a raid 0 for super cheap too. Not as fast as a ram drive ofcourse but 5 or 6 cheapo ssds in a raid 0 is still silly fast. I actually do that as a scratch space for building images and such.

I agree tho it is a super handy feature for four dimm systems and with skylake supporting up to 64g hopefully it will become more standard as ram prices come down or perhaps even chipset level support for it.