On Sat, 21 Dec 2019 09:23:19 -0500, "Mayayana"
wrote:
"Shadow" wrote
| See my post to Paul. I got it set up. Then I tried
| Crystal, which I'd never seen before. I don't know
| how to interpret it. The ramdisk had only 94 MB free
| so I tested a run of 64 MB. The result was 10 times
| higher than read/write to a normal partition. I don't
| know what that means.
|
| It means it's a real RAMDisk.
|
No, I mean it was 10 times higher number. It took
10 times as long.
The result is in MB/s
Try an earlier version, the latest is not "guaranteed" to work
on XP.
Here's the"old" portable version:
http://c3sl.dl.osdn.jp/crystaldiskma...kMark6_0_2.zip
(that's the official mirror)
| Yes, just temporally move your swapfile to c:\ (or whatever),
| reboot, and format the RAMDisk before you test it.
Formatting at boot to FAT-32 is part of the deal.
But I did try Paul's suggestion of HDTune. I'm
getting an average about 120 MB/sec with the SSD,
showing a line that looks like Donald Trump hooked
up to a lie detector. The ramdisk, as Paul noted, is
almost a straight line, at about 2300 MB/sec. It looks
like I'm in business. And it was all very simple, with
clear directions, to use the Dataram option. I'm glad
I asked here. I was wasting a lot of time doing
research online and reading chat groups where no
one seemed to quite know what they were talking
about.
I just spent a couple of hours uninstalling my SoftPerfect
RAMDisk and installing Dataram_RAMDisk_v4_0_5_RC0.
Here's a test result:
https://postimg.cc/HcDC4L1H
Here's some notes I made:
1) Block DataRam from phoning home. It attempts to reach out to
memory.dataram.com and
license.dataram.com
No idea why it needs to check the license, I'm using the free
version, but the configuration window takes up to 4 minutes to appear
while it waits for a reply.
I unplug my cable whenever I install anything new.
So - firewall that.
2) Don't choose "Unformatted" in that first window, or Windows Disk
Manager won't see it. Choose "FAT32". Once it's up, you can format to
NTFS, and change the letter(I used "Z" so it doesn't interfere with my
pendrive-backup scheme).
DataRam will remember the drive letter and format(I save the
image, since I'm using it for my Palemoon profile).
3) I now have a lot more "total" RAM, so Dataram DOES use memory above
4GB, unlike the other offerings I tried.
4) I had tried Dataram previously, but it crashed a lot. Not the
version recommended by Paul though. So I'm going to keep track of the
TBC(time between crashes). Softperfect only corrupted the image file
once in 6 months, but required re-installing the driver and copying my
browser profile from a backup.
PS You can use OSFMount
https://www.osforensics.com/tools/mo...sk-images.html
For XP(not listed)
https://www.osforensics.com/download..._v1.5.1018.exe
to mount Dataram images. Choose "Partition type" not "whole file"
because of the offset.
HTH
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