moving CoolNavo cache to ramdrive any good?

HI

hope its the right section to post it

i want to ask , does moving googlechrome cache to a ramdrive will gain me some NOTICEABLE speed or its just a waste of time

cheers

 

According to this guy there was 20% improvement in page load speed. If you can be bothered, why not. See how it performs for you
http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2...efox-or-chrome-cache-to-a-ram-disk-and-speed/

 

You can move your entire User_Data folder (this contains all caches and extension data and everything else) into RAM. I've never really noticed much difference in speed.

It will cause significantly slower startup and (even moreso) shutdown times for your computer since it will have to load and save the cache every time.

 

10x for reply , i have GiliSoft RAMDisk which is the same like the software in the article .

will give it a try

 

Nice tutorial. I have run this identical setup in the past but dropped it when the ramdisk software caused a BSOD. I am trying again with the latest version. Definitely faster. Though not mentioned in the article IE cache can be moved to the ramdisk as well.

 

Question that I was just thinking about... I know the recommendation is to go FAT32 with these ramdisk partitions for greater speed... but... does that cause any security risks I am not thinking of over going NTFS?

 

Not sure. Permissions and file types are different (and easier to manipulate) in FAT32.

And since things are in RAM it's a good idea to make sure no one can execute from there.

 

That's what I was thinking. I may just go ahead and reformat the partition anyway. If anyone has any additional information on the subject I would still like to see it.

 

If you get it to work with NTFS let me know.

 

Done and works fine. As a matter of fact I can't tell the difference in usage so there is no reason not to use NTFS that I can see.

-Edit
...and now I have permissions on the files, with the Users group read only. With FAT32 it was full access to the EVERYONE group.

 

I wonder why guides don't specify that.

Thanks.

Is there a ramdisk software that allows for incrimental backups without forcing a backup at shutdown?

 

They probably don't specify it because they don't think of it. It was an afterthought for me. Most people don't obsess over these things like we do.

If by backups are you talking about dumping what is in the ramdisk to a file? I don't know of any that would do so on an incremental basis. Kind of defeats the purpose of a ramdisk... I guess. That will probably be the answer to that anyway.

 

It's essentially a very very lazy write cache. RAMDisk allows this but it doesn't let me disable the save at shutdown if I do incremental saves every 20 minutes or whatever it is.

 

I use the Dataram RAMdisk for my Chrome cache. Formatted NTFS. Nothing saved on shutdown. There is a slight improvement in page load but I have 8gb of ram so setting aside some for ramdisk doen't hurt.

 

How did you format NTFS with Dataram RAMDisk. I don't see that option.

EDIT: Got it.