Ramdisk for Vista 64bit

[DavidNL]

On Windows XP i used http://www.ramdisk.tk/ as a ramdisk. Unfortunately there's only a 32-bit version of this application.

Anyone know a proper Ramdisk to use in Vista 64bit?

Thanks in advance for any info

Regards,

David.

[mjall]

i need the same kind of utility.

[bluescreens]

On Windows XP i used http://www.ramdisk.tk/ as a ramdisk. Unfortunately there's only a 32-bit version of this application.

Anyone know a proper Ramdisk to use in Vista 64bit?

Thanks in advance for any info

Regards,

David.

Curious - what would one use a ramdisk for? I remember using it on the Amiga, but nowadays....what would one do with it?

[DavidNL]

It's much faster than a harddisk, so any application that does alot of writing/reading (temp files for example) operates much faster when using a ramdrive to store these temp files on.

In my case, i use it for Newsleecher (NewsLeecher is a tool made for fetching and managing articles from the Usenet).

While downloading it writes all the temp files (50MB) to my ramdisk, and after that it writes the total file to the output directory on my harddisk.

So instead of first writing the temp files to my harddisk, and then writing the total result to my harddisk, when using a ramdisk it only writes the total result... = faster and less burden/load on my harddrive :-)

[Stead]

...gigabyte's i-ram?...

[Phoneguy]

I found this hopefully it will help.

http://www.cenatek.com/product_page_ramdisk.php

Edited June 26, 2007 by Phoneguy

[Stead]

Well, I know there has been a free ramdisk which was limted to 32mb and worked in xp64...

...however as i was curious about this myelf i've discovered (for a price) you can get a full feature 64bit ramdrive for all versions of windows since 2000, x86 and x64...with support for $24 USD, or $12 if you don't want the updates and support

it has its limitations, it can only handle 64gig ramdrive however, I mean i'm not sure how thats a limitation yet, but i'm sure someone would complain about it

http://www.ramdisk.tk/

hope its of use! theres a free trial but it only supports basic ramdisk, doesn't save or load images and has a limit to the size