RAM drives

Just a quicky here.

If I were to put 2GB of RAM into my system and use 1GB of that as a RAM drive (using scripts to unload and load the information to and from the RAM when shutting down and booting up) would I be able to use that 1GB as my virtual memory?

If so, would this be a very good solution to improve system speed and reduce swapping if I were, at the same time, running RAID 0 WD Raptor 10,000rpm HDDs?

Thanks.

 

With that much memory you could just disable the swap file all together.

 

No, you can't disable your swap file.

I also can't see any point in putting your swap file on a RAM drive, it is unlikely you will see any considerable performance increases. Just put all the RAM in and let Windows manage the swap file.

 

I think Ram drives is only great for p2p, BT....etc.

 

Is it possible to install Windows on a RAM drive?

If so - how the heck can it be done?

 

My virtual memory tab has an option named "No paging file". To me thats kinda like disabling the swap file don't you think?

 

How do you make a ram drive bigger than 32MB? That's the biggest you could do with Window's ramdrive.sys

 

Atomic #38 has a section on it.

There are software utilities that allow you to use more than 32Mb. www.ramdisk.tk being one of them. This program will restrict you to 64mb though, but you can email the author for the extended version and he will apprently supply you with it for free. (you cannot use more than half you RAM due to a software limitation though).