What are some good ramdisk

dataram's ramdisk is a ramdisk program.

I am using RAMDISK on win XP SP2 but it doesn't work at win 7 64 bit ultimate.

is ram disk even benificial for windows 7 x64

what do you want to do with the ram disk?

i have no idea please explain

after you create the ram disk, what do you want to do with it? for example, do you want to, say, store your page file in it? or use it for i/o benchmarks? or store files it it? load games from it? so on.

i want to speed up system and load page file to ram disk

dataram's ramdisk software doesn't let you make ramdisks bigger than 4 gb iirc. you'll need to buy it to use bigger ramdisks.
after you create the ramdisk you can set your pagefile to the disk drive created with ramdisk. i've never tried it though.

would makeing a ram disk to put the page file on in windows 7. would it make the computer any faster? i use an SSD to btw.

i think ( i can't confirm this) windows only uses pagefile when a software specifically uses it and/or when it runs out of system ram. so if you create a ram disk, you will be limiting windows' usable system ram (unless you're using 32 bit os and have more than 4 gb ram) and possibly forcing windows to use the pagefile which is stored in....ram. so, using ramdisk for pagefile is probably not a good idea. the ssd should provide plenty of responsiveness. you could store the pagefile on the ssd.

How much of the RAM do u have?

RAMDISK works perfectly well on W7 x64, I am using it every day.

It would be nonsense to do it since u have the SSD .

U can use it to encode -- audio + video

Set up default location for WinRar, Photoshop

Run portable apps.

Use it as Temp....

what do you mean it would be nonsense, do you mean with an ssd i should just disable the pagefile anyways?

thanks

disabling the pagefile might not be a good idea. some programs need to store files in the virtual memory, sometimges games need to store swap files. you seem to have plenty or ram so you might not need a lot of virtual memory. keep at least 2-4 gb of pagefile.
ssds are very fast, they have much lower latency than hdd. storing the pagefile in the ssd instead of ramdrive would be smarter while you can use the ramdrive for the tasks nikorr mentioned.

dataram's ramdisk is best of choice for me.
Without any trouble enable was so easy and disable was better then install.

Til 4GB of RAMDisk is free there are no limit with date just freeeee~

I have 8~16GB on my pc and notebook.

I only enable 2GB RAMDisk.

In my office pc i set it with 1GB of RAMDisk.

Ofcourse i enable TEMP and history cache on RMADisk.

for 1.5month of exp.

it is great choice i made.

I love it.

good luck~!!

On my Win 7 x64 machine with 16G RAM, even when the RAM used is less than 2GIG, I still have stuff being written to the paging file, which I assume is due to some programs wanting to page temporary stuff instead of leaving it in RAM.

I've never seen this machine go above about 25% RAM usage - which I attribute to most of the programs on it still being 32bit rather than 64bit.

I'm thinking about setting up a 4G RAM disk to handle things like Firefox and IE caches, maybe the paging file, etc.

Here are my questions:

1. Aren't there some settings that force some Windows 7 OS stuff to stay in RAM instead of being paged out?

2. Has anyone seen any software that might examine a system and suggest things to be directed to a RAM Drive? Or RAMDrive software which includes an analysis feature? Better yet, RAMDisk software which is smart enough to find the stuff and then ask you which you want on the RAMDisk, and change the settings for you?

3. Has anyone seen any comprehensive information that lists various programs, such as Firefox, and provides the instructions to set the caches, temp files, etc., to use the RAMDrive?

4. I'm concerned about storing files such as OpenOffice temp files on a RAMDrive because I think that OpenOffice uses temp files for file recovery when a file crashes and if the system has been re-booted, well ooops.

I've googled and found generic suggestions about what to store on a RAMDisk, but nothing specifically listing suggestions by software title such as MS Word, Adobe Illustrator, etc., or anything comprehensive.

SuperCache 5 is a great program for that. Here's a post I made on another thread

Like winterlord I'm trying to squeeze more performance out of our current PC we bought in 2010 and was looking into the ramdrive solution. I want to upgrade some components because my wife want's to get into photo and video editing.

I don't want to rebuild the PC because there's just too much stuff installed and I don't want to deal with the HP help desk.

Here's what I'm currently thinking of upgrading:

New Parts:
AMD 965 BE Deneb (buying)
16 GB Kensington Hyper X Blu @13333 (buying)
RamDrive software (buying)
Seasonic 620 80+ Bronze (I own)
GTX 560Ti (I own)

Current Config:
AMD 840T (@2.9 GHz)
8 GB Generic RAM
AMD HD 5670
1.5 TB Caviar Green
Win7 Home Prem. 64-bit

Any input you guys have would be much appreciated!