September 5th 06, 12:23 AM
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RAM drive for XP possible?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257405/en-us
John
***** charles wrote:
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
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***** charles wrote:
"Ken Blake, MVP"
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***** charles wrote:
I have a motherboard that supports up to 4G of ram.
I would like to segment half of that to a ram drive.
Why? What do you want to use that RAM drive for.
Except in very special cases, using RAM for a RAM drive is
counterproductive in a Windows environment.
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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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Can XP do this on its' own or is there any software
out there that can do this is either free/cheap?
thanks,
charles.....
The problem is that the software (Poser) I am using to make
images is IO intensive during the rendering process. The
current computer has ata-100 drive and the rendering process
takes from 6 to 12 hours for one image. The tech support
people at e-frontier, the makers of Poser say that a faster
hard drive system will make a big difference. I looked into
other options like eSATA but they are a lot more money.
The Poser program only uses up to 2G of ram for execution.
It also does not take advantage of lots of the newer tech
such as multi core/multi cpu/advanced graphics accellerators.
So going up to 4G of ram is the cheapest solution and if the
e-frontier people or correct, it should make a big difference
in the processing times of the images. The image sizes I am
creating/using are anywhere from 10 to 100M.
I'm not familiar with that program, but it sounds like your situation may
be
one of those special cases.
I don't have any particular RAM drive program to recommend, but my guess
is
that someone else here will have a recommendation for you.
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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Special case, probably so. I have been looking through the
Internet and so far all the places that advertise "free ram drives"
and in fact not free. When you go to the webpage they want
a purchase fee. I am ok with that, everyone has to pay the
light bills but I am looking for a specific capability in that the
ram drive should take up the whole 2G above the first 2G and
be able to be mapped to R:. There are some other free
options that have to do with M$ loaded drivers at boot time
but I don't think that they will work all that well. But I will
still look into them.
In going through this process the term "bait and switch"
comes to mind. I guess we are all so used to it on the
Internet that it is just a small bother.
thanks,
charles......
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