bootable ram disk windows 7

[BFG10K]

They're fast when they're working, but still finicky and prone to errors. Not to mention, RAM sectors do go bad and using the RAM like a HD just puts that much more stress on those components, as well as the memory bus. - make sure you have decent heatsinks/coolers for your RAM.

That makes no sense whatsoever. That’s like saying an SSD or HDD will corrupt itself if you give it an extreme workload.

If the RAM passes the error tests then it should be stable no matter how many times it’s accessed or written to. If it’s not then you either have faulty RAM or your system has some other issue (e.g. overclocking).

 

[BURNINGchicken3]

with any of the new 500mb/s SSDs, the cpu is the bottleneck and not the storage, you will not get much faster boot times.

you can get 4x 64gb ssds and put them in raid0.

i had two ocz petrol's in raid 0 they use the same controller as the vertex 4 but i put one in my lapyop and the other is still in my pc. but they were not that fast with a fresh install they were about 20 secounds but i think my board had a bad raid controller because it boot in about 12 seconds on my desktop and 8 on my laptop.

i might also raid two OCZ Agility 3s and put the other petrol in my sisters laptop

 

[mobear410]

is it possible to boot windows off a ram disk? with out having to re install it each time?

I spent the better part of an hour writing out the exact method that I watched a tech set up & boot from a ram disk but the forum wiped it all out & I am not going to do it all again. Just trust me here is the video on Youtube http://youtu.be/Va3PmHZwUtQ that shows that you can program a set of small utility programs to boot win7 from a ram disk. There is actually more than one video that explains the procedure. Possibly 2 or 3 different ways but yes it can be done. :\

I just had to respond to this thread to show that it can be done. There is more than just this one video. I hope this solves the question for all that could not see that it can be done. Have a grand day.

 

[John Connor]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820249042

 

[GrumpyMan]

I had no problems with my gigabyte iram, i still have them, i had 5 iram but only able to fit 2-3 on each machine.. tight clearance. I eventually sold them off and kept 2 for swap file purposes, all these empty pci slots. the sata 1 limit speed kind sucked, even in raid.. the battery died off but you can buy replacement.

We use them at work for data processing, where can you get a battery replacement, I haven't been able to find any?

 

[aigomorla]

That makes no sense whatsoever. That’s like saying an SSD or HDD will corrupt itself if you give it an extreme workload.

If the RAM passes the error tests then it should be stable no matter how many times it’s accessed or written to. If it’s not then you either have faulty RAM or your system has some other issue (e.g. overclocking).

actually he's partially correct, ECC helps fixes the errors, but these iram devices do not use FB-DIMM's, nor have i seen one use them.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/dram-error-rates-nightmare-on-dimm-street/638

 

[BonzaiDuck]

It would be nice if everything worked at the speed of light.

It would be nice if storage space was infinite in size.

It would be nice if your computer could visit you in your sleep and tingle your willie.

But a lot of the obsessive fascination with the thread topic focuses on boot-time. If you sleep your computer, you wouldn't care so much about boot-time. Is shaving 10 seconds off boot-time worth a $500 outlay? Is it worth adding complexity to your hardware and software situation?

I often remark to friends, if my elderly mother goes to heaven, it will be only five minutes before she complains to the Almighty that the pastel colors of the clouds are not to her liking. She will demand to go somewhere else. It's no different when I shop for her fresh bananas. Or when I bring home a 25-lb bag of navel oranges: "There's a bad orange in that bag! They'll have to take it back!"

Never satisfied.

You'd think that an SATA-III SSD would "do it for ya," even without a RAM-caching gimmick.

The worst of it: After participating in this forum for some 7 to 9 years, I have also become an obsessive nit-picker. From the other end, I'm becoming more discontent about the offerings of the produce market . . . too. . . I have to remind myself of Aaron Cross's remark to his "Outcome" contemporary in "Bourne Legacy:" "Did you ever 'not care' . . ?"

 

[CiscoCrushedMe]

is it possible to boot windows off a ram disk? with out having to re install it each time?

Hi,

I don't know if this has already been solved but i watched an interesting video only a couple of hours ago which was showing software for creating Ramdisks that would store their data even after a shutdown/restart.

This is the video;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAdRsQJBEBE

The only way i could see this being possible would be to set up a small partition on a hard drive with a windows installation in which you could install the software for Ramdisks. Then install windows onto the Ramdisk, then change it to your boot drive. I don't know if this would work, but that's my only idea.

I hope this helps.

 

[tele2.nl]

is it possible to boot windows off a ram disk? with out having to re install it each time?

Yes you can do this with all versions of windows.
The windows installation must be on a vhd and the firadisk driver must be installed.
You can load the vhd into ram with grub4dos.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqMWkl4pD_OFH8ea4j-mVRQ/videos

This link shows you more.