How to Set up a RAM Disk for Free

[THINKER43]

but how to do it in win7

[Snowwie88]

@THINKER43

watch?v=z1Mx8tv-xSo

In full and clear detail.

[Benzedirk2012]

replay .30 to .37 lmao

[CornbredJr]

or just get a 8 GB of RAM...

[hooversom]

i have no idea what he just did

[rgregoryoa]

or you could install a solid state hard drive if you have the money

[andyp315]

@rgregoryoa

Ram disk is much faster.

My media PC (800Mhz DDR2) has 1700MB/s avg read, 3GB/s burst, 0.012ms access time. that uses 60% of my poor core 2 duo (3.46GHZ)

Newer SF2 SSD's will go up to 550MB/s avg read with 0.1ms access time.

Ramdisk for small files with insane speed, probably best for cache's. £9.50/GB (24GB DDR3 Kit -6GB for sys)

SSD for enough space to chuck anything that likes zippy speeds, better for game' S. £1.40/GB for good drive

[SplashEditing]

In Lamens terms, wtf is the half life 2?

[zackery261]

5:18 You got mail :P

[mikeccuk2006]

if you have 24 meg of ram, set 20GB as ram disk. Put Wow or games on that and you never get a lag

[KingNasho]

Computers confuse me, I use them for Facebook and Porn

[Benzedirk2012]

How to Set up a RAM Disk for Free, you never explain how this vid shows how to set up ram disk for free.You are terrible at explaining and i think you dont know much as pc as everyone thinks.My friend rob couch the graphics creator of xp says your a idiot and dont know what your talking about

[fuzonacid]

@Benzedirk2012

lol ur friend is smart :-)

[TheBipolarx]

That chick sounds fat..

[iChristian818]

deez 's in ya mouth

[TickTickClickGaming]

get a SSD =D

[PatabookG5]

@TickTickClickGaming SSD's are slower than a RAM Disk.

[07519979117]

what happens if i make a ram disk on a dual boot computer, will it appear in both operating systems

[shanet1st]

All you idiots saying F*CK YOU need to grown up. Its good to know that there are people with opinions out there, but some people need to think again about how they say it.

[kunduz88]

fuck you bitch ugly

[fancysnake1]

@kunduz88 are you like 8?

[MonsterNRGEE]

FUCK YOU! Linux UBUNTU 10.10 is BOMB, wayyy better than mac or windows

[CokemanChatt]

with this much ram just turn off the pagefile and any app in use will use the ram instead of the pagefile ... same speed less trouble.

[schmidtbag]

linux can make memory a filesystem for free, and you don't need to install anything its built-in.

i created a simple script that makes it very easy to set up. its amazing what you have to pay for in windows

[Macintosh3745]

lets install windows on it. will it work?

[hateWinVista]

@Macintosh3745

It works,but you'll need "slim" Windows XP for 1GB.

[LocoEvilDabdoub]

i would really appreciate if someone has a good idea: my motherboard died recently, so i need to buy a new one, but i would like to take this chance to upgrade a bit my pc.I would like to have more than 4gb of ram, hopefully more, and a processor that runs somewhere between 2.5 -3 ghz, because i would need it to work with Flash, Photoshop, and Premiere, After Effects and maybe other software to edit videos.

Also, i would like to know if its possible to make an hybrid that runs leopard-xp-win7

[PepperNigger]

@LocoEvilDabdoub Yes you can install OSX, XP, and win7. The OSX would have to be a hackintosh install.

[TheChosenHorde]

How u get more ram?

[goth199945]

can u rember so always to say hard disk cuz it anit a hard drive!!!! in side a hard disk case is a disk witch spins so always say hard disk

[smeghead666]

@goth199945 Remember, Ain't, Which

Its proper name and acronym is HDD, Hard disk drive

[rivercisco]

ok i think this is bad.

Intel(R)

pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz

2.79 GHz, 512 MB of RAM.

if this is bad please tell me how to fix it

Thanks,

Rivercisco

[kedstar99]

@rivercisco Well it dpends for your purpose, if all you are doing is surfing the web and opening documents then it is fine. However, as a gaming machine, I would recommend getting a new PC with a graphics card and i7 processor.

[yelnam2manley]

@rivercisco The processor is good, but if possible upgrade to it 3ghz, also depending on your mobo you might want to upgrade it at least 1 gig. What graphics card do you have?

[JetJL]

@rivercisco Buy a new computer. Sorry.

I used to have a 3ghz pentium D 1.5 gb of ram.

[rivercisco]

@JetJL Im thinking of getting 2GB of RAM and Radeon HD 4650 512 MB DDR2 PCIe 2.0 Graphics Card think that will work?

[pcfxer]

hard drives and RAM are both memory.

[ffsallnamestaken]

ramdisk OWNZ!11...

google: dataram ramdisk

Free ramdisk win7 compatible, register for free to use over 4gb.

If anyone know a better one PM me! I used to have a ramdisk long time ago with dynamic memory allocation, if you reduced the size it freed up memory.. Cant do that anymore tried basicly every ramdisk i found :(

Think it was the old ramdisk before dataram took over.. PM if you know one with dynamic allocation for win7!!!!

Any ramdisk now, if you reduce size memory isnt freed for use...

[thewhulk]

Using this "RamDisk" for games... wont that slow these games down by a considerable amount?

[nikosyv]

yeah if you install the games on the ram lol not if you use ram as temp folder

[mikeccuk2006]

this is usefull for encoding /video rendering, certainly if you use large file sources.

[urksi]

pure crap.

[pcb15]

How can memory be faster if it doesn't move. If I remember basic physics, 0 MPH is not as fast 1+MPH

[needakiller]

they work in different ways, a memory work with just small on off switches, so its limited by the speed of the electricity that runs thru it, or the computer / mhz its made to use. while the hard drive is ALOT slower seens it have to move around and look for the files it need, then read it from a disk, and a disk is not nerly as fast as flash memory.

[benthemiester]

I thought Snow Leopard took care of this automatically.

[Simpspark1]

100th COMMENT!!!!

[1981z28camaro]

You can restart your computer, even completely shut it down, and reboot and still keep your stuff on the Ram Disk, I just did it, with RamDisk Plus 9.0, I installed Winamp, restarted, and it was still there on the RamDisk.

So, Lockergnome is wrong.

[widowmaker777]

That's because when you shut down, it writes it all to your hard drive before powering off. When you reboot it copies from your hard drive to your ram disk. Forcibly pull the power cord out and see what happens. Anything not saved to the hard drive is lost. Ram is volatile and can never retain data without a power source. Get your facts straight before calling someone wrong.

[1981z28camaro]

yeah well, he's still wrong by simply saying you can't save it. that's implying that it can't be saved no matter what, but it can.

[widowmaker777]

He never said you can't save it. He only says it flushes after reboot which is true. Windows hibernation saves the contents of ram to hard disk all the time. You just don't explicitly see it.

[1981z28camaro]

that's not true, Hibernation isn't even enabled on this PC, and it saves it still.

not trying to argue, just saying :-)

[widowmaker777]

Not talking about your computer. I'm saying hibernation does the same thing as what a ram disk does when it's time to save data.

[1981z28camaro]

oh ok, I see what your saying :-)

[1981z28camaro]

Microsoft should just program it into their O/S so that when you have an excess of RAM not being used, it can be put into use for things he's talking about.

[nikosyv]

3:50 i live in dk and about EVERYONE i know says Nike (which is my nickname lol) as they you would say Mike. If you live elsewhere, you would know that it's pronounced "Niké"

Same thing with Adobe, even the TEACHERS over here pronounces it "A dope" which just makes my look like this -.-' every time i have to explain^ xD

anywho.. thanks cris!:D

[DimaPwns94]

Linux used this ages ago (and still does). It's called a "swap" partition. Usually used for servers. If your server runs out of RAM, it lets the memory spill into the swap partition. Don't use this as an excuse to buy less RAM. There's a reason why there aren't IDE or SATA RAM modules...

[braduz911]

LOL this guy just mostly crys about i than solving the ACTUAL problem XD

[Greentalk89]

i wanna kno y in da hell ma pc has on 3.75 giggabytes total but on ma hard drive it says on da back of it it has 80gbs? can someone explain?

[UchihaDark38]

or your reading the amount of ram in your pc or its the space available on your harddrive

[p00pindas00p]

Why would someone set up a software ramdisk just to store readyboost cache files? That's quite wasteful of both RAM and CPU resources.

I recently purchased one of Gigabytes GC-RAMDISK components, which many fellow geeks hissed at me for, as it's more expensive than an SSD drive, yet the same speed. Do you think that was a bad move? I figure RAM lasts alot longer, and for things like cache/temp files (due to constant read/write cycles) wouldn't a GC-RAMDISK last longer than a flash SSD?

[adverserath]

christ, this guy is like the joker, but with dual screens and no make up. and what the hell is with the CNN cap

[Mastersun88]

I moved passed windows I hate it I love Mac better but I want to know is there a way I can download a Disc Drive like Disc Drive C that has 500GB mine right now has 46.3GB Free out of 139GB I believe this is why Computer runs crappy at times.

[jskinner123]

This has very little to NO effect on the speed of your computer.

This is why I want to punch apple users in the face, they just don't understand computers. Funny how the majority of IT people run windows or linux.

[heftycat]

agreed...

[oddha]

haha 1 terabyte of ram :P

[kkburnout]

that'd be fucking godly. :\ !!

[DayLight95]

@oddha not how this works

[willywonkadailyblah]

@oddha lol this guy got more ram than hdd

[ht448]

@oddha One Day... One Day

[PowerfulProducti0nz]

@oddha holy shit

[BloodsplatGames]

@oddha But will it blend? :O

[DraconianDebate]

If you want a really fast drive, get an SSD (Solid State Drive). Not as fast as Ram, but alot faster than even 10000RPM HDD's

[socerants]

ya but SO EXPENSIVE!

[o0o0oZeeKo0o0o]

how can I get my pc to recognize the ram again?

[TheOnlyDuST]

o0o0oZeeKo0o0o if you have an intergrated graphics card it could be sucking alot of that memory for its use.

[veryfuck]

hey pirillo can you actually use ram as harddisk permanently?

i mean for real if i wanted to spen my money on it?

Would be fun, a 80 GB ram harddisk :)

windows will go with lightning speed

inmagion how fast

[Antonz4]

Well, unless you get something like the I-RAM, it'll be wiped off your RAM every time your PC power is turned off.

[cinapek]

dork

[SpItfir3xXx]

dude stfu at least he's helping us or at least letting us know something important

[blkhockeypro19]

dude really if he thinks hes a dork why do u care lol...

[deccyd94]

so if i have 2 slots

it can take 1gb each

i have 2x1 sticks

if i tak out the stick thats already in will anything be deleted on my pc???

thanks

[dave5708]

Nothing is stored permanently on the RAM, its wiped clean everytime you shut down your computer, so no, adding more RAM will not delete anything on your computer

[o0o0oZeeKo0o0o]

thanks dave, have a question, I have a computer and it had like 1028 mb ram on it, like 1GB, well, I had a problem and had to completely restore my computer, well, now it only picks up 480 mb ram, I opened my pc and I have 2 stcks of ram in it so I'm guessing they are 2 512mb, so why is my pc only recognizing 480 of it?

[BlackLinePC]

its possible that 1 of the sicks is bad, and the second 1 tht still works has a defective chip on it, beacause a 512 stick of ram usaly has 8 chips with 32mb on each, ans 512 subtract 32 is 480, im not sure if is tru tho.. just a guess

[jkru08]

november 5th IS MY B-DAY!!!!!

[qecbum]

actualy ram does not "flush" its self that is a comon missconseption.

[Prestinoiam]

You're right qeubum, I don't know why people rated your comment badly

[qecbum]

yeah exactily there has been alot of research done on it and everything. i dont know why either

[richardmrazek]

Hallo,

working this RamDrive on Windows 7 (64, public beta)?

[BrytaPlanka]

Whats the best software/freeware for vista 32 and 64? This video is from 2007, it must be some other options by now.

[DxlilxD]

U.u imagine having ur OS in the RAM! U.U 99.9% faster... ROLF!

[chchang1]

running an OS from RAM would be much faster than from a SSD or HDD.

[IMPMAC]

I wonder how much it cost to give continuous power to a 8GB ram chip. IF it is cheap then it is worth using it as a HD, just dont take the plug out!

[therevengeofsaladboy]

It wouldn't be worth it, power cuts and RAM errors, plus the inevitably of having to restart you PC, I mean you might as well just buy a SSD, although it would be slightly slower because of motherboard architecture.

[iceblitz99]

Omfg.. people.

Flash Memory: Is a USB Stick, Imagine it as Solid State ram (Does not clear when power has lost) but much slower!

Memory (RAM):Memory thats really fast, 500x faster then a 7200RPM Harddrive, But when power is lost files is lost.

Harddrive:Solid state Memory but is stored on magnet plates, Faster then flash memory but much slower than ram.

CPU: Processor, works out calculations set by programs.

[cyborgtroy]

No, solid state is the term used for transistor-based memory, like Flash or RAM. Hard drives are magnetic memory.

And Flash is technically RAM [so are hard drives, cd drives, etc.] but RAM is used to refer to the system's main memory, so flash is more accurately described as solid-state secondary memory.

[Exxod07]

nope

[tubeoftheyou12]

what is this the nerd convention? i can't understand a thing every one is posting. nice vid tho

[masterpj55]

no a flash drive isnt faster because the usb port limits the speed compared to a hard drive that has got a faster connection.

but the ram connection is even faster and better used

[masterpj55]

funny and stupid comments XP

[throgors]

Quote "RAM has no moving parts, therefore it is faster."

I suppose that this means a usb flash drive is faster than a hard disk as well?

heh

[dopedopedopedope]

Technically? Yes. Neither of them have the seek times of hard drives, which means they can instantly get to and move files without having to wait for the hard drive to spin. Flash drives have slower write speeds than a conventional HD, but that's about it.

The new Solid-State Drives on the market are essentially big fat bricks of RAM which emulate the file system of normal hard drives. They are crazy fast in comparison, but are quite expensive.

[throgorss]

The SSD drives are not ram, they are flash memory, which do not have the same technology as ram, such a ddr.

A ram harddisk would be something like the gigabyte iram.

[blufireice]

Actually no, neither SSD or the iram would be as fast as a RAMDisk. SSD's have faster access times than norm. HDD's but slower read and write speeds. The iram however is still limited to a SATA 150 bus (150 MB/s), there are HDD's that can top that. However your norm. DDR2 800 RAM used to make a RAMDisk has a transfer rate of 6400 MB/s.

[throgorss]

Ramdisk will almost always win (not always, there is always something better). As for the iram, replace the fpga with something quicker, a newer sata, or fibre channel. If you dont mind a thousand wires circling your chassis, multiplex the fibre channel or do infiniband. You'll cap the rams bandwidth (or more likely your southbridge) without a problem. Although you can always configure more ram =)

It always comes down to what you want to do.

[cyborgtroy]

He's oversimplifying, RAM is fast because of the way it stores and accesses data.

[danplat13]

Can someone tell me if I can have 1.5gb on my computer, if it will work. Leave a comment on my page, thnx

[GTATipz123]

nice, i got 10.5 gigz, not much but more than i had..

[Shtoobs27]

lol biigest nerd

[Tomas953X]

i got 2 GB on Windows XP it goes fast as hell

[skate19249]

NERD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[den0lille0noerd]

that just good XD

[Zanzabar199]

hes not a nerd hes a geek

[XHDHQ]

LOL ! yeh hes a nerd so ?? remember who you turn to when porn has eaten your pc..

[ahanix1988]

You'd think for having so many sponsors, he'd be able to afford a halfway decent camera and connection.

[mickjansson]

how big are our screens?

[rogersmithbigo]

We obviously need disk drives to hold massive amounts of information, but the fact that we run our operating systems and applications from them is just crazy to me, at least until we get much higher storage bus speeds.

[rogersmithbigo]

I remember back on the apple 2e and Nintendo; you would put your disk or cartridge into your PC or entertainment system, and boom, the information went into the ram and the program was run. Modern computers and applications simply do not take advantage of the sheer speed of ram.

[rogersmithbigo]

The trick is having enough ram and an operating system capable of using all that ram. As far as i know, vista is capable of 128gb ram. All i would really need for a gaming PC is a good 28gb. Abit has a 32gb Motherboard out as well.

[Zethlis]

lol are u retarded? 8gb is highest u can get for vista on 64 bit

[swhibble]

no, you're retarded. the whole POINT of 64bit computing is to get away from the 3GB limit imposed by 32bit operating systems. 8GB is simply what most desktop motherboards are physically limited to (ie. 4 slots with 2GB sticks of RAM). I run vista x64 with 16GB of RAM.

[danplat13]

DAMN! An im here with 512mb. Donnations accepted!!:D

[rogersmithbigo]

I have been doing a lot of research on solid state storage.  It seems to me that as long as storage bus speed is a limiting factor, nothing will be as good an option as a ram-disk. I would think booting an image (of your os and applications) into ram would be the absolute ideal situation for performance computing.

[123456789lollol]

i got 6 gb ram on vista, a 4 gb ram and a 2 gb ram

[Pikachux1000]

i have 256 ram on windows xp the mimimum lawl

[creativeatheart]

Im running 8GB on OS X Leopard and there has never been anything faster! (from anything that I've actually used!)

[Chrijz]

arsoft-online dot com

seems to have a free ramdisk-program.

[keyesaw]

This works great for serving web pages - Awesome

[Glenn0402]

So whats the advantage of having a RAM drive if you have a SATA hard disk 3Gbps.

Just asking..

[mblunk2]

A SATA hard disk that claims to be "3.0 GBps" simply means that the bandwidth of the connection to the head drive, meaning that the data transfer rate is capped at 3 GBps. However, most hard drives only transfer data at about 60MBps in perfect conditions, however memory is around 1-2 GBps.

[modmadmike2]

Its EVEN FASTER, it is possible to work at around the speeds a processor uses, because it only has 1-3 chips between it and the processor, but yes ram can only go up to 8gb of storage (TOTAL-not counting the running programs) in a 64 bit environment, or 4gb in 32bit- so it cant hold much.

[lordchawk]

So it isn't for free seeing as it costs to buy the software? Right?

[pancake292]

kat has no life :D

[johnaiton]

chris turn the background noise eliminator down a bit,

the noise reduction is chopping your speech a bit.

can't remember if it's in the samson softpre or your hd audio program though

[DatVillain83]

why would some one decompress an mp3 to wav file? music pirate probably. n e way nice tool!

[rebsutube]

I would not but the software i use decompresses the mp3s to waves just as it analyzes them. (just like all other audio editing etc programs does)

[DatVillain83]

because mp3 is already a compressed audio which means it's lost some of it's quality originated from the original format that un-coincidentally was probably a wav file. WAVs are uncompressed music formats. nobody gets that?

[rebsutube]

Dude! You are right about the lossy format BUT! If you are doing something with music files (mp3s...)not just listening you can't mess with them while they are compressed. Wavs are not compressed that's why every editing etc software decompresses them to wave. It's just like when Photoshop opens jpgs....you can see that it takes much more ram than it's real size.

[DatVillain83]

thanks for clearing that up. i guess sometimes people need a wave file regardless of its original format. but your still saying wav files are being decompressed with editing software. it has to be uncompressed (wav) which it is anyway so that you can edit it with software.

i think of MP3s like Zip files with loss.

[erikhulse]

Great video! Good info!

[DMXell]

The Mac OS X Preference pane Esperance DV is a free RAM Disk utility that's nice and works in 10.3+ (even Leopard).

[TheGnomeLocker]

You would be surprised how many people forget to set there virtual memory correctly.

[windowshacker66]

They would be stupid not to set their virtual memory.

[TheGnomeLocker]

Yeah, however most recently I ran into some one that only had 512mbs of ram, and only 68mbs of virtual memory.LOL I bout died laughing.

[vahnx1337]

I have 1.5GB RAM in XP and I noticed nothing by enabling my virtual memory min/max to 1.5GB.

[channdizzle]

setting virtual memory to any size does NOT give a speed increase at all

[Sp8rk3y]

LMAO "hard!!!! disk", RAM disk is usefull if you have alot of RAM like 8GB I wouldnt make set it up if I had only 2GB for XP even 4GB on Vista.