AMD Radeon RAMDisk

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For those of you who have AMD memory you can allocate up to 6 GB of RAM for temp disk caches; the rest of us have the option of up to 4 (using this specific software anyway, this is just a re-skin of DataRAM and there are other alternatives, Archicrypt Ultimate RAM-Disk, etc.).

http://www.radeonramdisk.com/

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I read about it a few days ago.... does it automatically allocate programs to it? How does it exactly work? I was thinking of using it...
 
You decide what you want to put on it.

Here is an example:

I use Visual Studio for programming; If I wanted to have close to a 0 load/build time I would install the IDE onto my 4 GB RAMDisk.

If you wanted to install an open world game (Arma, GTA, etc.) onto it, you would see significant increases in refresh rate compared to an HDD since new textures are constantly being loaded into VRAM.

There are options to have whatever files written to it on start up, then unloaded before shut down. This will cause an increase in start up/shut down time, but if you don't mind that then whatever you allocate to RAMDisk will load almost instantly.

Think of it as a retardedly fast small hard drive, much, much, much faster than an SSD.
 
Ah, RAMdisks! I remember those from my MS-DOS 5.0 and 6.x days. I had a 486 with 8 megabytes of RAM, which was an enormous amount in those days, of which I set aside 2-4 meg for a RAMdisk. Things loaded much faster from the ramdisk; I'd imagine they'd seem even faster nowadays since although hard drives are now faster than they were, the increase isn't nearly as much as that of RAM and CPUs. Anyhow, this is definitely something worth looking into.
 
I remember my uncle had allocated 512MB to a RAMdisk on his home computer back in the Windows 98 days. The thing was crazy fast when working from it, so I'm glad to see the technology coming back.
 

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