Ramdrive

[BankFodder]

I've just installed a ramdrive, allocated 6gb and pointed my browser's temp files to it.

 

Stunning performance. I'm really quite blown away.

[dx100uk]

save up and go get a solid state hard drive marc

 

 

you'll need about 60Gb for a std windows install

makes any PC go like lightening.

[brassnecked]

save up and go get a solid state hard drive marc

 

you'll need about 60Gb for a std windows install

makes any PC go like lightening.

 

Absolutely spot on DX, SSD are coming down in price so the higher capacity ones are becoming affordable.

 

just one example

 

http://www.ebuyer.com/497430-crucial-240gb-m500-ssd-ct240m500ssd1

 

But there are bound to be better bargains out there

[BankFodder]

Well I don't know whether people think that this is the best solution, but anyway I'm hugely pleased with the new speed of my system.

 

I found something called Primo cache. I've installed both their RAM drive and also their cache software. I also bought an SSD and installed that.

 

I set up the SSD as level 2 cache – using it to cache activity on my C: drive.

 

After two or three system start-ups, the speed of the start-up is extraordinary – and also the speed of the start-up of various programs such as Outlook, various Adobe programs is also astonishing.

 

I couldn't be fagged to start setting up the SSD as a raid and then reinstalling Windows.

 

This was much easier – and also if sometime or other the system falls over, I don't have to disentangle a raid system.

[brassnecked]

If it works how you want BF, can't see a problem.

[WebMaster]

Don't forget you'll loose the contents of the ramdisk when you reboot though - so you might be starting out with an empty browser cache each time (unless the ramdisk implementation has some logic for saving to hard disk).

 

Like DX says though, SSD are great, and you could add one as a secondary disk with reinstalling/moving Windows

[renegadeimp]

I prefer Raid SSD's for extra performance.