programs to create ram disk and your usage?

hi
but are you sure it's compatible with w10 64bit
because i have installed /unisntalled
reboot
can't install it again
http://i.imgur.com/Ds9g2lv.png

used total commander to find SoftPerfect folder nothing

 

A ramdisk is a great way to kill your system's performance with the ideas/usage presented thus far.

• If you're going to buy a commercial product, just buy an SSD instead for a real and significant performance gain
• As an alternative to the SSD solution, use ReadyBoost with a not-slow flash drive/SD card
• Browsers and the OS itself already use RAM for caching, which you're diminishing by using it for a disk and fooling these mechanisms that decide what should go on the disk and what should go in RAM and forcing more swapping out of RAM to the ramdisk (creating nothing but overhead) and to the pagefile
• Optimise your pagefile (free)
• Ramdisks have a niche that has gotten very small with tech improvements--unless you have a specific purpose (a workaround for a software problem), you're likely hindering performance

 

hi
why?
using like temp , or software like premiere (using like cache) should boost such programs..

 

Dunno what happened to your installation, but I usually reboot after uninstall and before installing again. Might be something in the registry if you can't find anything on your system drive.

 

I find it more of a convenience, privacy, and disk health benefit. There were even times when I had to copy files there because the source drive was too busy and laggy.

I highly doubt it will kill performance unless you allocate too much. But I guess the main benefits would go towards 32-bit OS with more than 4 GB RAM.

 

I agree. I don't see how creating 2 GB ramdisk from 16 GB of ram would kill system performance. At least I didn't experience this.

 

hi
i found this https://www.softperfect.com/contact/knowledgebase.php?article=4
how to make a clean install

can i ask you ? the first time you installed under w10 did you get a warning about the driver?
thanks

 

Don't remember, sorry.

 

hi
a new version is out 3.4.7
and the new features are

cheers

 

1. Yes I do. I use Radeon Ramdisk. (I believe it is a fork of Dataram ramdisk) and it has worked flawlessly since I started using it a couple of years ago and works in Windows 10. I guess most of the ramdisks do.
2. I dont know what the best usage is, but I use it to install my browsers and totalcommander there. I have bought the 12GB version, but I yet have to discover why I should use that much on the ramdisk

 

SoftPerfect RAM Disk v3.4.7 - Windows 10 compatible

New version 3.4.7 (29 October 2015) available and it's Windows 10 compatible.

Changelog:

Code:

- Added Windows 10 compatibility and fixed issues with the product.
- Added executing *.bat and *.cmd files in automatically started apps.
- Allowed to manually save data to image even when data persistence is off.

https://www.softperfect.com/products/ramdisk/

DL
https://www.softperfect.com/download/freeware/ramdisk_setup.exe



Although they hired a new developer and not the excellent old one I hope his skills will overcome all challenges ahead with Windows 10, LOL.

https://www.softperfect.com/board/read.php?16,21601,21725#msg-21725

 

hi
have you tried Romex PrimoCache (FancyCache) ?

 

Hi
may i ask 2 questions ?
1)
is there a way to flush the content of the ram disk to a folder (and not in the image file) when i shut down?

2) and about the image files
in the manual there is

can't find it this option


thanks

 

@mantra

Ask here: https://www.softperfect.com/board/list.php?16

 

1) you would have to create a script that would copy content of ramdisk to desired folder and another script that would do the same (other way around) at startup, after ramdisk is mounted.
2) you have to create image file and then select it when creating ramdisk. That way you get persistent disk.

 

hi thanks Minimalist
i was thinking about sync , w10 should have a sync feature to keep synched 2 folders for example

ps did you notice bsod with w10 during the shutting down ?

 

I'm not using W10 so I don't know if there is problem with this combination.

 

hi
i'm watching now
seems really great ,i watched the tutorial to speed up the ssd creating a dynamic ram disk

 

I use Bond Disc (http://www.bonddisc.com) to make a 640 MB RAM Disk that is set to be the R: drive and I store my Browser's Cache, Printer Spool, and Flash Cookies on it (by making a Symbolic Link that points to its location on my HDD). I have it set to backup to C:\ramdisk.sna (via Drive Snapshot) every night (via Task Scheduler) and on reboot (via Shutter). I then set it up to restore from C:\ramdisk.sna to R: on login (via Drive Snapshot). Its REALLY FAST and works well on Windows 10 (not sure about Windows 8 ).

 

Download: https://www.softperfect.com/products/ramdisk/

 

In my experience SoftPerfect RAM Disk has always performed the best...

 

@Windows_Security, @hjlbx or anyone else,

I've got a question pertaining to RAMDisk's and Folder/File Permissions (read/write/etc). Windows ACL and permissions is something that I am not quite as familiar with as I should be. My daily account is standard user.

Let's assume that I have some programs running in RAMDisk within R:\Program Files\, what is the easiest and most reliable methods or tools to utilize the folder/file permissions from C:\Program Files and transfer to permissions over to R:\Program Files?

I am vaguely familiar with utilizing Accesschk to check on permissions for different groups of users and so on, but I am not very familiar at all with actually setting permissions or transferring permissions.

Thank you!

 

see https://social.technet.microsoft.co...p-and-restore-ntfs-and-share-permissions.aspx

Instead of backing D:\data use C:\Programs Files and use for restore R:\ in stead of D:\

 

@WildByDesign
If you won't use image to save data and copy data at each startup to R:, you can use this switches with xcopy: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/323007 to retain permissions.

 

I`ll have to look into these more tomorrow but just quickly found IMDisk which has dynamic memory allocation http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/
like the very old Primo I`m using which was cheap at the time and I`m still on w7, so never really needed to change - but it`s always worth checking things out.