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Ramdisks live on – performance in Win7

Posted by John on February 4th, 2010

Good bits, highly recommended !  A 10g ramdisk did wonder for my transcoding, since it was i/o bound from Raid 5, under Win7 x64.

http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk “From DataRam”


Ramdisk Screenshot
  • Speed up Internet page load times
  • Control what files and programs are stored into memory (loaded at boot time)
  • Create temporary disks for added security
  • Speed up disk-to-disk activities such as video encryption and audio ripping
  • Accelerate databases
  • Reduce compile times

RAMDisk features:

  • Freeware version (up to 4 GB disk size). Please register with Dataram for larger disks (there is no charge).
  • Universal version for WindowsXP/2000, Vista (32 and 64-bit) Home Basic, Home Premium, Business and Ultimate, Windows Server 2003 Standard, Web and Enterprise Edition
  • Up to 32 GB disk in Vista and Windows 2003, 2008 Server (registered mode)
  • Save and load features allow RAMDisk to appear as persistent storage even through reboots
  • Supports Windows 7

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