What are you using RAMdisk for?
Started by Ramboy
Ramboy
What are you using RAMdisk for? 24 June 2014, 11:56 |
Re: What are you using Ramdisk for? 24 June 2014, 14:08 |
Admin Registered: 12 years ago Posts: 5 643 |
We use it in-house for building software (as this process creates lots of small files linked together) by setting up the compiler to place temporary files on a RAM disk.
Ramboy
Re: What are you using Ramdisk for? 25 June 2014, 07:03 |
Re: What are you using RamDisk for? 14 July 2014, 01:07 |
Registered: 3 years ago Posts: 2 |
1. FireFox 31 cache, when I turn off my PC, the cache is gone (makes less chance of bad virus/malware lingering there).
2. A place for large photos to be manipulated fast, and then if not needed they don't waste my SSD space.
I have 12GB DRAM, but use 1GB ram disk.
Thanks for great product!
user
Re: What are you using RamDisk for? 28 July 2014, 00:20 |
Timo
Re: What are you using RamDisk for? 26 August 2014, 07:02 |
- Windows temp and tmp and Admin temp and tmp.
- As a cache drive (or working dir) of various heavy duty SW packages.
- As working folder of password protecting compression SW, many of them decrypt password protected packages to some disk. They do delete the temp files after they are not needed anymore but they do not delete them properly, it is easy to fish those temp files up. From volatile RAM drive all is gone when power goes off.
- As the location of *.BAK files. Some/many SW provide the BAK file functionality. But usually those *.BAK files are just an annoyance. By having the BAK files on the volatile RAMdrive I get some level of safety against mishaps and still they get deleted automatically and are never irritatingly present in the actual working folder.
With Best Regards,
Timo
SAVHP
Re: What are you using RamDisk for? 29 August 2014, 02:50 |
dosforever
Re: What are you using Ramdisk for? 04 September 2014, 17:02 |
dosforever
Re: What are you using Ramdisk for? 04 September 2014, 17:04 |
Brandon
Re: What are you using RamDisk for? 25 July 2017, 06:22 |
Another use is having to share multiple copies of a file. Load in ram first.
Very private chat servers.
If some of your software is "calling home" and catches you every time you go online, it might be nice to be able to reload the original image...
Maybe one could do a virtual machine off a ramdisk so that one os could monitor the changes made to another while activating a program (so as to repeat the macro and activate future installations offline)
Lots of uses....
Chris Smith
Re: What are you using RamDisk for? 07 August 2017, 14:21 |
Dung
Re: What are you using RamDisk for? 24 August 2017, 19:28 |
Re: What are you using RamDisk for? 26 August 2017, 00:45 |
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Re: What are you using RAMdisk for? 01 September 2017, 17:55 |
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