Crazy ramDisk.. but what for?!

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Casper Traberg-Larsen

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I've created this insanely fast ramDisk as a drive on my PC
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But i need some ideas.. How/ for what can i use this amazing speed? :D
 
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i5-3570k, 16GB RAM.
Allocated 4GB to the RAMDisk. In theory, things should have been visibly faster.
In practice, they weren't.
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Actually, pagefile would be counterproductive.
You're sucking up 4GB RAM, to speed up pagefile usage, for when you run out of RAM.
 
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Hmm.. Really? The Ramdisk is more than 10x faster than my SSD! Maybe your CPU is the bottlenecking part then? Or maybe ramDisk are just not so usefull? :(

 
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i5-3570k, 16GB RAM.
Allocated 4GB to the RAMDisk. In theory, things should have been visibly faster.
In practice, they weren't.
 
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Good point! I don't think I'd try it unless I was running with 16gig of ram or more. Also, some programs use the pagefile long before physical ram is used up. It would make a nice experiment.

OP, here is how to move the pagefile if your up to it.
http://superuser.com/questions/237813/how-can-i-move-the-page-file-to-another-physical-disk-location

 
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Thank you for the hyperlink, i might try it :-D
 
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