So I guess if I opt for the profile being in ramdisk, the ramdisk software has to be able to do a copy to my hard drive from time to time, and always when I close my browser. I guess most of the ramdisk programs has that option… but I am not sure if we are talking about the same thing… you refer to making the profile persistent.
Also, will it be saved to the image automatically whenever I put the computer to sleep? A question: Does the ram disk show up when scanning a machine for administrative shares in an Active Directory Domain? Looking for an easy way to keep data safe from people with browsing rights. In fact, hard disks can fail prematurely because of excessive use of torrents.
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Microsoft won't extend Windows 7 Extended Security Updates. Server gets another year. Microsoft Windows Security Updates November overview. Comments Mr Stank said on June 7, at am. Richard Allen said on June 7, at am. Martin Brinkmann said on June 7, at am. Richard Allen said on June 7, at pm. RossN said on June 7, at am. Check if the file system exFAT will not be more efficient. BalaC said on June 7, at am. Ivan said on June 7, at am. The question is, how much is the speedup? Is it worth the hassle?
Martin Brinkmann said on June 8, at pm. Apps with lots of read and write operations may still benefit from a RAM disk. Tom Hawack said on June 7, at am. Does this program have to run in memory as a resident program while you use the RAM Disk?
Yes it needs to run in memory but it uses barely any RAM. Franck said on June 7, at pm. Al CiD said on June 7, at pm.
Sophie said on June 7, at pm. Anonymous said on June 7, at pm. Emil said on June 7, at pm. It was fine in the Amiga days reset-proof ramdisk yay but nowadays there is no speedup with a RAM disk because: … If you have enough RAM, windoze and every other modern OS already caches enough disk contents, reads and writes before they are requested from the slow?
Constance said on June 7, at pm. Anonymous said on June 8, at am. Solution: 1. Upgrade to SSD 2. Defrag your HDD. I think that once again…. BM said on June 7, at pm. Perhaps, only if one is running process intensive programs. Dave said on June 7, at pm. Tom Hawack said on June 7, at pm. Martin Brinkmann said on June 7, at pm.
Sure, read speeds don't actually have much of an effect on gaming outside of maybe shaving some seconds off loading times, but if you want something even faster you could try creating something called a RAM Disk. There are several drawbacks to using RAM disks, but we'll get to that. Decades ago, PCs had next-to-nothing storage capabilities, and the idea of a dedicated hard drive was a dream. Prior to that, most data was stored on floppy disks.
Not only is that a grain-sized speck of storage space, but HDDs were much slower than the ones we have today. In a sense, a RAM Disk is a type of solid state drive, since it doesn't have any mechanical parts. So, if you need a lightening-fast virtual drive for whatever reason, a RAM Disk would be the way to go. You would see near-instant file read and write times.
That doesn't mean games would load immediately, however. Reading the files off your storage device is only part of the task of loading a game. Until then, you can again restart the program and it will start faster as all of its processes are still in the RAM. This is the time when all the processes are loading in the RAM. If you minimize your current program and start working on another one. You will notice a tiny delay or a little stutter when you will move back to the previous program again.
If you close a program and then restart it again during the same session , it will restart faster as compared to the time when you loaded it for the first time when you booted the PC. This is because the program is loading from the cache instead of the default storage. One of the reasons why you should not use a RAM cache cleaning tool.
How programs work inside a RAM drive? Here is how the above 3 stages of program processing work when you load a program from the RAM drive : As the program is already inside the RAM , there is no need to load its processes from the default storage to the RAM. So you will notice that the program will start up very quickly. Whether you use a RAM drive or not, programs always work inside the RAM, so you will not notice any boost in performance.
Closing and opening time of the program in the RAM drive will always stay the same. This type of data is usually created to be deleted later in time , so there is no problem even if the RAM drive fails and delete this data.
On top of that, this data is actively used by Windows and your browser to speed up processes. When it will be read from a RAM drive, the processing will be even faster. If a program takes time to load, then you can move it to RAM drive for faster load times. If you use such a program actively, then moving it to RAM drive will speed things up a bit.
If you need to work between two folders and need to exchange data frequently , then moving both of them to a RAM drive will help. Could be a good security measure as you cannot recover data from RAM by any means.
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