I'm Thinking of changing from 6 Gig of Ram to 12. Could anybody tell me what a Ram Drive is/Does/How to set up? What's the difference between http://www.scan.co.uk/products/12gb-%283x4gb%29-corsair-ddr3-xms3-pc3-12800-%281600%29-non-ecc-unbuffered-cas-9-9-9-24-15v and http://www.scan.co.uk/products/12gb-%283x4gb%29-corsair-vengeance-jet-black-ddr3-pc3-12800-%281600%29-non-ecc-cas-9-9-9-24-xmp-150v Cheers
The only difference is aesthetics to be honest, the vengence kit has tall heatspreaders and MAY overclock slightly better, but there really isn't any performance boost
i got these babies, theyre good: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/8gb-...ce=google+shopping&utm_medium=google+shopping
A RAM drive is an area of RAM reserved to be used as storage. So basically, you could make a very small but very fast SSD. As RAM is volatile, its only available to use while the PC is on, I presume when you turn the PC off, it writes everything from the RAM drive to the Hard drive.
Corsair recently did a write-up on using RAM as a cache drive using software which costs around $80. The numbers were hugely improved in some cases but I dont know whether this would equate to improved real world or "how fast it feels" performance compared to a quick SSD. More info here.
Thanks for the Corsair Link. I've had a quick play with the program and it's great. Need to do a bit of tweaking to assign it to my Hard drives as well. The up shot is I've ordered the 12gb Kit of Corsair Vengeance.
If you want a classic RAM disk as opposed to that caching system, there are a couple of options I've used. Dataram RAMDisk is good in that it allows you to mount the drive automatically on startup, but it's limited to only a 4Gb disk in the free version - http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk Alternatively I've also been using ImDisk - it isn't as good in terms of features, but for this one there is no limit on the RAM disk size you can create - http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/#ImDisk Of course, what you can actually DO with a RAM disk is up to you I tried copying games to one and playing them from there, but didn't notice significant speedup compared to playing from the regular location, though that was a nice fast SSD to start with.
