RAM Drives

[oD1Nz]

Hey-ho guys.

I saw a program recently claiming to create a kind of HDD in RAM, to make for better loading times etc.

Does anyone have an experience with them, and any recommendations on programs to do this?

 

[SidewinderX]

maybe a link will help?

 

[oD1Nz]

Okay, kinda like this: http://www.thetechzone.com/articles/ram_drive/. It'd be better if it was a enable/disable type thing also, instead of install driver/uninstall driver.

I'm running Windows 2000 Professional.

 

[SidewinderX]

well according to that article, to take advantage of the speed, you have instal the file to the RAM drive, and unless you have more than a gig of ram, you're not gonna be installing anyhting new

 

[Xtasy0]

a ram drive is pretty useless for most things, one of the things right off the top of my head is when you boot with a win98 floppy or the like it makes a ram drive and stores some utilities in there.

the only way i could ever see it being useful in standard applications might be for games, if you install a game into a ramdrive, and then image it (so you can copy it back to the ramdrive...) then that would speed up your loading times, but you'd need a lot of ram to do this successfully unless it's a small game...

also everytime you shutdown, or your pc simply loses power the data in the ramdrive is lost, and it's more likely for the data to become corrupted if it's sitting in a ramdrive.

 

[oD1Nz]

Yep, I'm interested in installing games in it, I don't care if I have to put them back in everytime I reboot.