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(Solved) - @WHS VHD Ram Disc ??

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ian2
ian2
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Do you think having windows8 on a VHD , where the VHD is on a RAM Disc is worth trying ?

Would it work , I thought I might try and use it with Adobe PHotoshop, Dreamweaver and Office 10
on the W8 VHD.

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whs
whs
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You need an awful lot of RAM. With those programs I would think you need at least 18 to 20GBs. Rather than a VHD, I would install it in VMware Player on your normal system (e.g Windows 7). Then you move or copy the VMware folder to the RAMdisk.

Is it worth it - probably not. I think you would be better off with a SSD - even if attached via USB3. I had tried a small Linux distro on a RAMdisk. It did not really go any faster than on the SSD.

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raphoenix
raphoenix
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Many Builders use 32GB of Ram as is inexpensive and maxes out the MB with a matched set of modules.

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whs
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Yeah, 32GB of RAM would be nice. I could run 10 virtual partitions in parallel

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hArLtRoN
hArLtRoN
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32GB of RAM would be awesome but a bit overkill. None the less I would like to have that much!

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raphoenix
raphoenix
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Setting up a Ram Disk with Corsair (1 MIN, 24 SEC Video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oyLR6eVHPI

4800 MB / SEC

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hArLtRoN
hArLtRoN
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Rick, that's a good explanation video! If I had the money to upgrade my RAM I might consider that.

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whs
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All I see is that the overall system performance (last chart) does not differ much from the SSD. And that was my experience with my little Linux distro (DSL) also.

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raphoenix
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Ya, anything that's runs in memory is going to be faster than running on an SSD. :)

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whs
whs
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Rick, here we differ again. You look at nums, I look at real life.

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raphoenix
raphoenix
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I look at Specs and Performance Bench Marks with my head and not with my heart. :) :)

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ian2
ian2
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Well thankyou Rick and Wolfgang for your responses .

I had read this post from WHS's Post

and was curious as to how it would work with a ram disc.

I think my curiosity is now satisfied .

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whs
whs
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It's fun to experiment but sometimes it does not buy you much despite the good theoretical numbers. As they say "quod erat demonstrandum".

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