Comments on: RamDisk – Using More than 3GB ram on 32 bit OS

By: martin

martin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:44:26 +0000

why do you write that 2^32 is “just above” 3 gb? 2^32 = 4gb. it’s not “just above” 3gb.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:09:53 +0000

Is this RAMDISK compatible with Server 2003 32bit OS? I am running a terminal server and when all my users are logged on, I am maxing out memory. Really should replace with 64bit server and os but cannot afford to right now.

By: davea0511

davea0511 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:49:59 +0000

Yeah, everytime the subject of RAMdisk comes up now I hear the same baloney: “you don’t need it with OS’es newer than XP-32 bit”, but in fact those OS’s only take advantage of RAM caching on an OS level or where the program is written to specifically do that. Now most very established programs like Photoshop, or Office do that, but if you still have older programs or programs not written to do that then you need a RAMdisk to cache to ram, regardless of your OS.

By: mushkin

mushkin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:26:47 +0000

Nice, there’s also some info on how to set application temp files here:
http://www.planetamd64.com/index.php?showtopic=38005

java temp files, firefox temp files, internet explorer etc. putting all the temp files on ram speeds up the software dramatically and reduces the hard disk fragmenting. solid-state drives have real fragmentation problems. and ram is cheap 4x 2gb (8gb) of ram could cost you under £100.

I play all the latest games on my pc, and this technique I’ve found is the best for speeding up everything from photoshop to crysis. some software try and force the swapfile onto the system hard drive partition though, like ms office. and maybe others.

you can make a 2mb swapfile on C:\ and make it read-only to try and curb some of those software from forcing the swapfile on c:\. best way i’ve seen is to use hiren’s boot cd so you can boot a mini-operating system and right-click on the c:\ drive and set the 2mb swapfile to read-only. hehe

By: Theman

Theman — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:41:06 +0000

Glad to hear it, su.

Did you allocated the 985Mb from the Unmanaged memory?

If so, I’m impressed with the amount of RAM on your laptop!!

By: su

su — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:34:09 +0000

Excelent tip. My T2300 1.6GHz notebook behaves like a workhorse! I feel I am now working on a brand new laptop – all applications open so fast,its unbelievable. And, I using 985MB as ramdisk.
Thanks a ton!

By: admin

admin — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:23:24 +0000

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By: John

John — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:05:49 +0000

The benefit of a RAMdisk are very apparent. You get a small HDD section which has the speed and access times of ram. if we use 3 channel DDR3-1600, it is 38.4GIGAbytes per second. where as HDDs are around 100-120 MEGAbytes per second. SSDs around hitting 200MB/s. So it makes a big difference…

Thanks alot for this nice writeup

By: admin

admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:13:57 +0000

I hope Windows XP means Windows XP 32 bit.

If you using 64 bit version of XP then you need not to install and create RamDisk.

For more help look into following faq –

http://www.superspeed.com/desktop/faq.php#A002

Also If you are on Windows XP 32 bit and you have 8 Gb memory installed you can safely allocate atleast 4Gb without even thinking…

By: James

James — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:47:41 +0000

Can you go into more detail with the following Section:
Install RAMDisk and configure your excess ram as drive. If you have a 8GB RAM create a RAMDisk of 5GB and assign a drive letter(H:\) to it. Make sure that you allocate only Unmanaged RAM otherwise it will try to use RAM which Windows is using and can lead to system freeze and unpredicted results.

I have installed Ramdisk Plus 9.0.4.0
I have windows XP
I have 8gb of RAM installed.

I try to go into Ramdisk>memory>unmanaged, but I am really not sure what to add or what to set.

Thanks for you help.
Regards