aztrix![]() Veteran ![]() Posts: 116 Joined: 6/16/2004 Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia ![]() | Howzit Folks? For anyone who feels the need for speed, I have recently setup a RAM Disk/Drive for my trading apps including OmniTrader & OmniData. So while this info is fresh in my memory I thought I would post a quick HowTo with my experiences and hopefully a best practice guide for anyone else with spare RAM capacity and looking to improve speed, particularly for database disk I/O operations. Why you might ask, well after you have a look at the following comparison your question might be answered I/O Wars RAM Disk vs HDD vs SSD I did a search of the forums and found some references to RAM Disk/Drive but limited useful or actionable info. So next I did a search on DuckDuckGo for RAM Disk/Drive and after half an hour of reading decided to check on my favourite Windows 10 forum and voila 🤓 This gave a basic instruction set but no detailed ins and outs but it was a start … ImDisk Setup:
This last part wasn't obvious to me but a bit of experimentation and I finally figured out it 🙄 My initial findings were that the install was simple enough but from an operational perspective ImDisk doesn't cut the mustard! The primary reason for this is that it does a copy of files/directories on the RAM drive changing the create/modify dates to the time this occurred, which when the RAM drive is reloaded causes most of my software to fail … oh dear, more research I have however found a handy workaround … meet FreeFileSync FreeFileSync Setup & Configuration:
So far I have noticed a tangible difference in speed on my almost 7 year old laptop although I haven't benchmarked the performance Speed aside there are additional benefits, less wear and tear on SSD due to a reduction in I/O intensive disk operations means a longer life, my laptop also runs a lot cooler now Any questions or comments, give me a shout? Cheers Aztrix P.S. I have also moved the windows user and system temp folders to the RAM Disk, jury is still out on that but Chrome is certainly snappier. I'll restore them to default location or D: drive if I run out of space on the RAM Disk [Edited by aztrix on 9/7/2022 9:33 AM] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |