- DATARAM RAMDISK SETTINGS HOW TO
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Also, make sure you set a single 50 MB swap file to a spinning hard disk, so that should you run out of memory windows will ‘auto inflate’ this mini file and prevent itself from bluescreen crashing.ġ. This may require changing some settings in the RAMDisk configuration, ie primarily the “save changes at shutdown” so that you can get windows to actually put a swap file on the RAMDisk and turn it off on your NAND Flash based SSD. You can place a small windows SwapFile of say 500MB here, turn it off your swap file on your NAND Flash SSD! You can do do this for all of your applications, especially servers, torrents, etc that write frequently to the disk.Ī. Close Firefox and re-open it to allow it to create its cache in the directory.Ģ. Next locate the preference, it must be set to true, if it is not, double-click on it to change its value. For its value type the path to where you want to store the cache, eg the path to your directory “FireFox”. For the name of the preference type _directoryį. Right-click somewhere in the list and select "New > String"Į. Accept the warning message that appears, you will be taken to a list of preferencesĭ. Type about:config into the location bar and press enterĬ. Create a new directory on your RAMDisk, call it “FireFox”ī.
DATARAM RAMDISK SETTINGS HOW TO
As I prefer Mozilla Firefox, I will show how to set this up.Ī. Set your favorite applications to take advantage of this super fast diskġ. (meaning anything that you run that needs the temp variable will fail if you have not created the directory first) you can point these anywhere, even setting up an individual path for both, but you MUST also create the stated directory on your drive before you actually can use it. I set my RAMDisk to drive letter X: therefore I set both variables to x:\TEMPī. You will do this for both User and System sections.Ī. Locate the “TEMP” and “TMP” entries and change both to the path of your RAMDisk TEMP directory. There are 2 boxes, the ‘User variables’ and ‘System variables’ġ. On the “Advaced” tab, at the very bottom, press the “Environment Variables” button. Select “Advanced System Settings” which opens a new dialog box with several tabs on it.ī. Right click your “My Computer” and select “Properties”Ī. This drive should only have a “TEMP” directory in it now.ģ. Set Windows TEMP variables to point to the RAMDisk.Ģ. Remember where the “Save Disk Image Now” button was, as you will come back to it later. You must now edit the RAMDisk contents and windows variable settings. It defaults to C:\RAMDisk.img however this should be on your fastest hard disk drive. Save the image by pressing the “Save Disk Image Now”. We DO NOT want to save changes at shutdown (uncheck that box), but YES we do want to “Load Disk Image at Startup”.ī. Remember the goal: this is a temp directory. Press the “Start RAMDisk” button at the bottom.Ī. Set the options to create a temp directory, label the disk. It is up your decision and testing as to what to choose.Ĭ. Also I have shown significantly better performance on some RAM disks formatted exFAT over FAT32 and NTFS. This of course can change if you have need of a larger RAMdisk. You don’t need security on the disk, or large file support. If your RAMdisk is 4GB or smaller use FAT (Auto) for partition type. If you have more than 8 GB RAM, then you may want to look into a paid copy that allows you to use more ram for your disk, or use the slightly harder method that involves the freeware tool “ImDisk” not covered here.ī. As such if you have more than 6-8 gigs of ram I would set the RAMdisk to 2-4 GB. Note: the goal here is to create a RAMDISK that we can let windows use as a temporary files directory.
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This installs the driver and will give you a Configuration utility.Ī.
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When you click the link to download ‘RAMDisk here’ it will ask if you want to join the email group and then it will let you dowload the latest freeware copy (v4.4 at the time of this writing)ġ.
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The link to download the free version is obscured at the bottom of the page, just under the prices.
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Obtain the software (easy way uses commercial freeware which allows a RAMDisk up to 4GB, anything larger needs to be paid for) A harder method using the freeware tool ImDisk can generate RAMDisks over 4GB completely free, however the use of the program is not as slick and refined for amateur use so it is not covered here.Ģ. This is my simplified guide for computers with more than 4 GB of RAM. I was recently asked to explain how I configure my personal computer (and servers) to take advantage of large amounts of RAM.