Ram Drive for SETI@home

[rrezende]

I'd like to create a virtual Ram disk to run SETI@home.
Reasons:
1 - speed it up
2 - turn off HD

I installed Ram Disk (AR Soft Ram disk for Windows NT/2000 version 1.20 - XP ready) and it does work fine. Is there a way to make a backup of this RAM disk to the HD so that I don't lose the results every time I turn my computer off ?

OS: Windows XP Professional
RAM: 384MB

Thanks in advance.

 

[Evadman]

It does not speed it up at all.
<edit: I stand corrected >
It should allow you to turn off your HD tho, but why turn it off? thats when the wear starts

 

[networkman]

As far as speed goes, I did some of my own testing with this a while back and found the improvement in performance to be on average only about 3 percent; and unless you've got a decent UPS going to allow for power interuptions, you'd still want to copy the data in memory to a hard disk so that data isn't lost, so the drive would need to spin up again and thus cause the wear that Evadman mentioned.

Don't worry.. someone brings up this topic at least once a month, so you're not the first.. probably won't be the last either.

 

[rrezende]

Alright, I'll accept your advice and leave my Seti alone. It seems it would be too much work for nothing ...........

Hey, life wouldn't be so fun if we didn't try to mess up with our computer every time, would it ?

Thanks guys.

 

[panhead49]

im with you rrezende.....lol

 

[Jeff7]

Plus, if SETI is saving its results to RAM and the computer locks up, all the work is lost then.