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Shakey   01-31-2007 at 12:57:12 AM

I'm in the process of building a new computer, and I've been thinking long and hard about the Gigabyte RamDrive.
I'd be useing it to hold my OS and any small inconsequencial programs that startup with Windows. Possibly some of the applications that take longer to load aswell ... say Photoshop CS2 or something along those lines.
Because of the extremely limited amount of space available on the RamDrive (max of 4GB) I was wondering if anyone knew an approximate (with say 50MB) install size for Windows Vista Ultimate. Assume I am doing an install with every single feature available on the disk.
I appreciate the advice.

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davemar14   01-31-2007 at 01:45:33 AM
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Vista Ultimate requires an install size of 11GB compared to around 2GB for XP. Its not going to happen.

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Shakey   01-31-2007 at 01:47:18 AM
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holy crap ... 11 gigs! I was thinking 3-3.5 tops. Wow.

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davemar14   01-31-2007 at 02:42:52 AM
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Well XP used to fit on 1 CD ~ 700MB. Once it extracted and decompressed, it only required 2 GB max. Vista comes on a DVD ~ 4.7GB, and once it extracts, it just gets bigger. Is there any reason it needs to be 11 GB? Sounds like a lot of bloating in the OS.

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Shakey   01-31-2007 at 03:21:22 AM
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well there's talk of Gigabyte coming out with a new version that can hold 8GB of RAM, but all the sudden this RamDisk venture got extremely expensive.

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The-Darkening   01-31-2007 at 01:41:13 PM
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It is possible to fit Vista Ultimate on a 4 GB disk. The problem is, the install will take 11 GB and then you must delete a lot of crap and bloat to make it fit.

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hubbardt   01-31-2007 at 05:56:29 PM
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click me !
.... or buy a 16Gb ramdrive :D

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Shakey   01-31-2007 at 06:49:31 PM
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well if the HyperDrive 4 didn't cost $1400 I would get it ... if it cost around 130 (like the RamDrive does) + memory I would pick it up in a heartbeat

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hubbardt   02-01-2007 at 10:25:27 AM
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Toot true. I only looked at the price after posting :oops:

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danny9894   02-01-2007 at 08:01:46 PM
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It's only 16gigs though lol

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Shakey   02-01-2007 at 08:12:02 PM
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thats more than enough, if I was going to start running XP I'd only need the inital 4 Gigs ... and that would be plenty to spare.

Well, are the hybrid drives coming out soon?
I'm just a huge fan of super fast boot up time, and fast loading times. I hate waiting for data to come in, and honestly its worth the slight proformance hit I'll be taking by not getting tip-top of the line processors and video cards.

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bacis   02-01-2007 at 10:14:13 PM
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hi.
if you read the below article u will see that vista performs slowest than xp.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/0 [...] tanalyzed/

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Shakey   02-01-2007 at 10:57:35 PM
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which is why I need a really fast hard drive :)

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hubbardt   02-02-2007 at 11:08:58 AM
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My next build will definitely use a super fast RAM drive for the o/s.
2-3 seconds boot up time ... nice !

8)

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hooked   02-02-2007 at 02:45:10 PM
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Is there anyway to find out which sections can be deleted from ultimate .. can your choose what to install and what not to install some how ? perhaps during the formatting?

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pkellmey   02-02-2007 at 03:08:03 PM
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I believe it only allows you to limit/add programs after installation.

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hubbardt   02-02-2007 at 03:16:24 PM
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You could try installing to a conventional hard disk. Removing unwanted stuff and taking a ghost image of the C: drive. Replace the hard disk with a RAM disk and put ghost image on.

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