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Just saw the add on this website for Raxco RamDisk Plus. I'm sort of a newbie to the newer technology and software, but it sure sounds interesting. Does the ramdiscplus from raxco really speed everything up so fast and is it stable and reliable?

Any pro's and con's that I should know about? Thanks.
 
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first thing to remember is if it is RAM, it is volatile. It makes sense if you were initially dumb enough to configure a PC with 64GB of RAM and now don't know what to do with the other 56GB, but in most cases I'd say it's not a good thing to have or to use.

Far better is to buy a small SSD and use that as your boot drive or as the cache drive for Intel Rapid Access Technology.
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first thing to remember is if it is RAM, it is volatile. It makes sense if you were initially dumb enough to configure a PC with 64GB of RAM and now don't know what to do with the other 56GB, but in most cases I'd say it's not a good thing to have or to use.

Far better is to buy a small SSD and use that as your boot drive or as the cache drive for Intel Rapid Access Technology.
 
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Start here, I guess.

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/rapid-storage-technology.html

Fast access to the files and applications you use most
Intel Smart Response Technology is a feature of Intel Rapid Storage Technology that recognizes and automatically stores your most frequently used applications and data into a high performance SSD while giving you full access to the large storage capacity of a hard disk drive (HDD). This enables a lower-cost, small-capacity SSD to be used in conjunction with a high-capacity HDD. Intel® Smart Response Technology enables your system to perform faster than a system with just a HDD.
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Yes it's volatile and the RAMDisk would be the same as anything else in memory, if you crash, what's there is gone....But it's really no different then any other crash, if it's in memory poof, gone regardless. Most RamDisk programs have options so than when you go to shutdown the rig, the data in the RamDisk is saved to the the hard drive and reloaded when you boot, so if you've say loaded programs in the RAMDISK they will be available when you reboot, if you are using large data files files you should be saving them occasionally to a regular harddrive anyway, so at any given time your loss would be minimal - it not something that everyone would like/use. Another thing is that if your system is good and stable, it's not likely to crash anyway. Proper use and taken precautionary measures (which should always be done anyway when using systems) will cut the chances of any but small losses of data
 
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Oh, so that's how it works. Thanks for clarifying that for me so well! So, what files would you recommend to put in RAMDisk then? I also want to speed up web browsing and read to put caching on RAMDisk to speed up browsing, but how would I go about doing that?

Just noticed that the MSI mobo I ordered comes with unlimited RAMDisc, so that was a nice bonus I didn't expect.
 
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