RAM drive

[Yulquen]

does anyone here use the SATA2 DDR2 HyperDrive5 (DDR2 based RAM disk)?

http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/

 

I was thinking about something really fast for a win system disk, and I

thought about RAM disk as an alternative to flash based SSD.

 

 

 

 

[bubbaQ]

Flash-based SSD is generally much cheaper and much faster.

 

The advantage of DRAM-based disk is write cycles, so it never wears out.

 

>Sustained Read Rate of 175 MB/s.

>Sustained Write Rate of 145MB/s.

 

An Ocz Vertex2 beats both of those benchmarks handily, for much less $$$/GB  An Ocz RevoDrive delivers 500MB/sec sustained read and write for under $400 for 120GB.

 

If you want Windows to smoke, use a conventional SSD or RevoDrive for the OS, put 8GB of RAM in and use a software RAMdisk (I use Vsuite (free)) to store your Windows profile, swap, and temp files.

[Yulquen]

thanks for your answer, I didnt know about the revo's.

 

the 250gb version could be it for me, just checked the price

at a Norwegian distributor.more expensive than US, but

still affordable.

 

btw, how big have you set your ramdrive for swap-file?

[bubbaQ]

how big have you set your ramdrive for swap-file?

 

Swap is limited to 400MB max.  it is on the temp drive which is 4GB.