Show us your hard drive performance

[TechOutsider]

CPU usage is a factor. Why not run HDTune right after booting up?

 

[Night Hawk]

That one was seen while sitting here idle on the GP drive the 32bit 7077 is installed on. It has more to do with the energy saving feature then any load on the cpu there. The other Cavier SE drives are more performance orientated being strictly intended for internal use seeing the faster access time.

 

[Sam]

Ramdisk took less then a second to finish this evaluation!

 

[Night Hawk]

Ramdisk eh? This one was a little bit different for the second time around with the 16gb usb flash drive since made a bootable installer for 7.

 

[bloke]

Ramdisk took less then a second to finish this evaluation! View attachment 8346

how long do the backup batteries usually last on those things? how come it only shows 100 odd mb and are they exactly like a hdd in the means you can store/erase like a norm hd? ive always wondered what they were like...

 

[Sam]

No, it's just regular ram used like a hard disk and you choose how much RAM you want to allocate to RAMdisk. A ton faster (45x over my HD) but, when you restart your computer the RAMdisk is gone, or the data has been deleted. I use for things like Firefox and iTunes. You wouldn't believe how fast they open.

 

[bloke]

No, it's just regular ram used like a hard disk and you choose how much RAM you want to allocate to RAMdisk. A ton faster (45x over my HD) but, when you restart your computer the RAMdisk is gone, or the data has been deleted. I use for things like Firefox and iTunes. You wouldn't believe how fast they open.

i thought they had a backup battery and they have some lights showing how much charge is left so the data can be kept on there?

all i need is a free pci slot.... how much room do you need for yours? has yours got a max of 4gb?

 

[Night Hawk]

A ramdisk is more or less utilizing the active ram on the system where everything gets cleared out once you shutdown or simply see a fast restart. That type is highly violitile unless you can create some type of backup image to reload again later.

 

[harmann]

Wow, a RAM disk! I haven't seen one of those since my MS-DOS days over 10 years ago:shock:

 

[bloke]

that's freakin awesome speeds tho, something tells me that they weren't as fast 10 years ago though.

how do you create a ramdisk, i been googling for a short while but they are running around chasing tales, try this program try this entry, is there a 100% working way to use system ram to create the ramdisk?

 

[Night Hawk]

One method good for creating a ram disk in 2000 and XP might be able to work on Vista and 7 can be seen at SpeedGuide.net :: Ramdisk Guide They provide a driver there good for the two previous versions.

Again that also outlines just how voiltile ramdisks can be since everything exists in the active ram until the power is removed at shutdown or any simple logoff from Windows if not a full restart. The faster speed is a direct result of nothing being loaded into ram but already being there to start with.

With slows cpus and only what 64-128mb seen a decade ago how would you speed things up a bit? That was a solution available at the time.

 

[johngalt]

Which links to Free Ramdisk for Windows Vista, XP, 2000 and 2003 Server » My Digital Life which has a better driver, a GUI, and much easier instructions....

 

[bloke]

One method good for creating a ram disk in 2000 and XP might be able to work on Vista and 7 can be seen at SpeedGuide.net :: Ramdisk Guide They provide a driver there good for the two previous versions.

Again that also outlines just how voiltile ramdisks can be since everything exists in the active ram until the power is removed at shutdown or any simple logoff from Windows if not a full restart. The faster speed is a direct result of nothing being loaded into ram but already being there to start with.

With slows cpus and only what 64-128mb seen a decade ago how would you speed things up a bit? That was a solution available at the time.

and a pretty good solution it is, until you power down.

i managed to find Virtual Hard Drive Pro v2 by FarStone and it done the trick, but i can get windows disk management to even show its there, so i cannot use it for anything apart from file swapping, not even HD Tune detects it

 

[bloke]

Which links to Free Ramdisk for Windows Vista, XP, 2000 and 2003 Server » My Digital Life which has a better driver, a GUI, and much easier instructions....

have tried every compat mode with run as admin but still gets failed error on selecting install ramdisk

 

[Night Hawk]

With a ram disk you have to suffer the fragility for the speed there. That's the unfortunate side of that. And since that is an item loaded and run in ram and not an actual physical drive there isn't any way for HD Tune to detect it or have it displayed by the disk management or any other drive tool.

For detection if possible or to simply map any virtual drive you would need a virtual drive mapping program of some type that replicates the virtual environment to some extent in order to map and illustrate it. You would be getting into some heavy math probably for creating a 2d or possibly 3d representation.

On the other hand for preventing data loss you would then start looking at a physical device that replaces a physical hard drive entirely. i-RAM In Detail - Review Tom's Hardware : Can Gigabyte's i-RAM Replace Existing Hard Drives?

 

[Sam]

You have to run RAMdisk in compatibilty mode, and I found formated in exFAT, the speeds increase by a little.

 

[bloke]

You have to run RAMdisk in compatibilty mode, and I found formated in exFAT, the speeds increase by a little.

yeh i did, look at post #115 on this page...

 

[Sam]

RAMdiskVE?

 

[bloke]

WOOT! thnx Sam (+)

 

[DemonSeed]

Here is all my drives.
All My Drives are bench marked in Win 7 (7000)

OK so there is all of them.
Now you guys will know better then me, How do I hold up?

I really don't know how to read the benchmark.