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    Ramdisk in W7 and the best use of it

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Koshinn, Sep 7, 2009.

  1. Koshinn

    Koshinn Notebook Deity

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    http://www.dataram.com/products-and-services/ramdisk/download-ramdisk

    100% free for 4GB or less ramdisks

    Question - What's the best use for the ramdisk? This program can save an image of the ramdisk on shutdown and load it on boot up, as well as periodically save images.

    What do you think is a good use for a ramdisk? Should I copy firefox over to it every single time I startup my comp?

    Or maybe a game? I don't know...
     
    Koshinn, Sep 7, 2009
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  2. BinkNR

    BinkNR Knock off all that evil

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    It might improve performance, but the SuperFetch in Windows Vista and higher already does this. If SuperFetch sees you use Firefox often, it’ll keep it cached in RAM. The advantage of the SuperFetch approach over this other approach is that is it automatic and based on how you use the computer. In addition, if something else needs the RAM space that the cache of Firefox is occupying—let’s say a game for example—Windows will remove Firefox from the cache and automatically put it back when you close the game. This other approach will leave Firefox in the cache indefinitely.
     
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