Hi,

have 12GB RAM that I barely utilize, rarely get above 25%.  Other than Tetris don't play games.  As a general user how much improvement will I see using RAMDisk?

RAMDisk appears to be treated like normal drive & since I already have 4 partitions - will have to remove one to make room for RAMDisk.  RAMDisk needs to be formated as an NTFS drive in Windows Management.  Is this all true?

Apparently the 4GB RAMDisk package is free & since I don't see anything specific for machines running 12GB RAM am assuming 4GB RAMDisk would be appropriate?

WEI is 5.9 because of data transfer rate.  Everything else is 7.3 or above. Can I expect to get the WEI over 7 using RAMDisk?

thanks,

daemondog

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Dell Studio XPS435 MT, Quadcore i7-950 3.07GHz, 6 X 2GB DDR3 1067MHz, Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate, 1TB Seagate 7200 RPM, AMD Radeon 4850 GPU

Edited: 10/13/2012 at 04:23 AM by daemondog

You will notice about...0% increase in performance.

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Crosshair IV Formula, Phenom II x4 965 w/ Corsair H60, 8 GiB OCZ Platinum DDR3 1600, XFX HD 7970 Ghz, 512GB Vertex 4, 256GB Vector, 240GB Agility 3, Creative X-Fi Titanium w/ Creative Gigaworks S750, SeaSonic X750, HP ZR2440w, Win 7 Ultimate x64

Is that because I don't have enough to load into memory to make it worthwhile?

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Dell Studio XPS435 MT, Quadcore i7-950 3.07GHz, 6 X 2GB DDR3 1067MHz, Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate, 1TB Seagate 7200 RPM, AMD Radeon 4850 GPU

It's because a RAM disk is intended for, say, a server environment where you have one master unit with petabytes of storage and the worker units have only RAM disks for storage, or anyone who will be working with large numbers of small files, but even then a SSD is a better choice.

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Crosshair IV Formula, Phenom II x4 965 w/ Corsair H60, 8 GiB OCZ Platinum DDR3 1600, XFX HD 7970 Ghz, 512GB Vertex 4, 256GB Vector, 240GB Agility 3, Creative X-Fi Titanium w/ Creative Gigaworks S750, SeaSonic X750, HP ZR2440w, Win 7 Ultimate x64

+ A power loss would mean total data loss within the ramdisk, using ramdisk is only good for servers where data mostly sits on hard drives, but is then copied into ramdisk for faster operations, backuped constantly and backups restored when rebooting etc.

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Sounds like RAMDisk may be better suited for work environments - massaging small chunks of application regions on the PC before syncing back up with mainframe/servers.  And even then a SSD is a better choice, good to know.

 

Have an SSD in my wish list should the Seagate fail.

thanks

 

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Dell Studio XPS435 MT, Quadcore i7-950 3.07GHz, 6 X 2GB DDR3 1067MHz, Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate, 1TB Seagate 7200 RPM, AMD Radeon 4850 GPU