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Offline joemango

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RAM disk wor Windows
« on: January 13, 2004, 04:45:07 PM »
I have had really good luck using this setup for editing and I figured I'd pass it along:

If your PC has the ability to use more than 1 GB of RAM, fill it up and GET A RAM DISK PROGGY.

http://www.arsoft-online.de/products/product.php?id=1

You can get a freeware RAM Disk driver at this link.

Why?  I set this up on my win 2000 PC with 1.5 GB RAM and it positively beats the PANTS off ANY hard drive you can find for throughput.  I did a test on my machine with RAM disk vs. hard disk and the results were dramatic.  Normalizing a 80 minute set of 16/44.1 took 2 minutes 30 seconds without RAM Disk, with 1 GB RAM Disk it took 1 minute 10 seconds.

1 GB of RAM is not that expensive, either.  Maybe $150 if you get 2 sticks of 512 MB.

and all you have to do is point your software to the ram disk as the swap or data location and it doesn't know the difference.

E-mail me at jmnospam@adelphia.net if you have any detailed Q's.

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Re:RAM disk wor Windows
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2004, 06:40:31 PM »
good info.  just don't have enough ram
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Re:RAM disk wor Windows
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2004, 03:56:32 PM »
check with your pc manufacturer or motherboard manufacturer that the system you have can hold that much ram...many of the HP/Dell/Compaq systems are limited to the amount you can have


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