RAM drive

HeQtor

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Hey guys, I'm currently looking to upgrade most of my computer, RAM included. I was thinking about getting 16gb RAM, even though there's little-to-no-use for all 16GB!

It's 1866Mhz cl9-9-9-27 1.5v RAM, and I want to make a RAM drive on 4-8GB, since I won't really be needing 16GB pure RAM!

I would love to know if any of you guys have any experience in RAM drives, some different ways in which it can used or whats required to make one/use one!

If you got any pro's and con's on RAM drives, I'd be happy to hear about it since my knowledge purely comes from researching it online.
 
Pros: Fast temporary storage using unused memory.

Cons: It's temporary.

Alternative, Just get 8GB ram and spend the rest on a small SSD.
 
when i used to have 8gb ram, i used to use 2gb ro ram disk, i would just put my pc into sleep instead of shutting it down
 
Let me join to your question HeQ in some way. Because I have some uncertainty opinion about RD. For me as an 'average user'(I don't do video editing/photoshop stuff/ or similar resource-specific tasks). Surfing the web, gaming, movies, music - like all of us do. And after my googling and a couple live discussions with friends, I can hardly imagine any good use for RD except browser cache. For any other serious usage of RD you have to have 32+gb of ram in your system (especially considering how much disk space modern games require).
SSD+Windows 8.1 combo+some magick tweaks makes RD almost useless, except specific tasks(as I've mentioned above).
But regardless of my argument, I still hope to be wrong, because RD's have HUGE potential, despite all those new 'bottleneck-elimination' interfaces for ssd's.
 
Let me join to your question HeQ in some way. Because I have some uncertainty opinion about RD. For me as an 'average user'(I don't do video editing/photoshop stuff/ or similar resource-specific tasks). Surfing the web, gaming, movies, music - like all of us do. And after my googling and a couple live discussions with friends, I can hardly imagine any good use for RD except browser cache. For any other serious usage of RD you have to have 32+gb of ram in your system (especially considering how much disk space modern games require).
SSD+Windows 8.1 combo+some magick tweaks makes RD almost useless, except specific tasks(as I've mentioned above).
But regardless of my argument, I still hope to be wrong, because RD's have HUGE potential, despite all those new 'bottleneck-elimination' interfaces for ssd's.
Oh you aren't wrong by any means. The cost to benefit for a large RAMdisk for your everyday or even enthusiast user is not at all worth it. You need to have a specific interest or purpose. SSDs are far to cheap in comparison these days.

I have to say though that I won't be giving up my RAMdisk because the enthusiast in me just doesn't like the idea. However I bought my. RAM a good while ago when when it was much cheaper and when SSDs were new and expensive so it worked out pretty well for me. Would I do the same today... not sensibly, no.
 
I use softperfect ram disk (because it's free and has no stupid limits).

Well worthit if you set it up right :)
 
I run a small 1gb ram drive 24/7 as a cache for my Raidr is good yah! Obviously because its a small drive and I do have a powerful system I don't really notice the boot lag. I'm running that off 16gb.
 
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