Chancer Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 I spotted this and wondered if there was any truth in it - what do you guys think?http://blog.raxco.com/2013/05/21/how-to-get-better-than-ssd-speed-for-your-pc/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs18 Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 (edited) It is true to a certain extent (not practical for most kinds of applications & programs, though) - brings to mind something that I had linked up (check out post # 568 - don't miss the one at post # 570.) Edited July 22, 2014 by dcs18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gipsy Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 (edited) check how it's workhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA4gbkeBe3oit's good for temp files mostly.useless for me,my ssd still "best choice". Edited July 22, 2014 by gipsy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Owl Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 I will stick with my Samsung Pro's thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airstream_Bill Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Interesting, Raxco has been around for awhile. Probably works to a certain degree. I NEED all My RAM Ha ha ha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VileTouch Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 ram drives have been around for 30 years or so. i don't know what's so innovative.just don't put the swap file in it....that would be stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragdd Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 I know RAM drives (Ramdrive.sys) from the days of MS-DOS 6.22.Bad thing of RAM drives is when the power goes off, everything in RAM drives is gone.Samsung SSD's uses part of RAM as cache when you enable Rapid mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted July 23, 2014 Author Share Posted July 23, 2014 Bad thing of RAM drives is when the power goes off, everything in RAM drives is gone.Another good reason to have a UPS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragdd Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 If you PC reboots after a crash then a UPS won't do any good.Bad thing of RAM drives is when the power goes off, everything in RAM drives is gone.Another good reason to have a UPS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted July 23, 2014 Author Share Posted July 23, 2014 If you PC reboots after a crash then a UPS won't do any good.Bad thing of RAM drives is when the power goes off, everything in RAM drives is gone.Another good reason to have a UPS!Indeed it won't - but files in the process of being written to a HDD are at risk of corruption.There are issues whatever path you choose - my principle is to minimise that risk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallhagrid Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 It does have a single advantage that I can see in reading their site - but for $79.99 & the cost of extra RAM, why bother ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragdd Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Advantage of RAM vs SSD and HDD is much higher bandwith and smaller acces times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 (edited) DataRam has RamDrive software/driver. Freeware personal for up to 4gb. It will save data if you like - but then it has to load that file it at boot.. so quite a pause to load large data. I use a 768mb DataRam RamDrive just for browser cache. That probably offloads from the hard drive quite a bit of stuff constantly. I have plenty of Ram. It does seem to make the web a bit snappier. I would think guys using SSD's would like to lower SSD use with a RamDrive browser cache too.? Edited July 23, 2014 by mikie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackerz14 Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 I still prefer primo cache or eboostr or supercache Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallhagrid Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 Related with all the above...:http://www.megaleecher.net/RAMDiskA payware that does this is VSuite Ramdisk:http://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/vsuite-ramdisk/support/how-to-use-4g-ram.htmlThe concepts are nothing new and have been deeply tried & tested by those forever wanting more & more speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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