For your consideration : The Ramdisk Experiment
Mechanical drives are slow to access files such as your
Second Life Cache, and whilst
Enter the Ramdisk, which is 100x faster than even the
fastest Solid State
Forget the Ramdisk of yesteryear where everything was wiped
from memory as soon as your computer was switched off, they have come a long way.
Modern Ramdisks create an image file automatically when your
computer is switched off or rebooted and saves this to the hard disk. When Windows is started, it copies this image
back into the Ramdisk so you can continue seamlessly.
On a 16GB computer, we allocated 1.5GB of memory to Ramdisk,
leaving us with 14.5GB for normal running.
This 'loss' of memory is unnoticeable, and what is more, the totally free Ramdisk by ROG/ASUS uses
Dynamic memory allocation up to the 1.5GB we stipulated. This means that if that amount of 'disk space' is not being used, then the Ramdisk decreases
in size, releasing the memory back to the computers main pool.
Extract the x64 files folder and run set-up. Then tell it how much memory you wish to
allocate. It will ask to reboot your
computer. Once you have done this,
load your Second Life viewer, and in preferences, under Network, select the
location of your Ramdisk, but be sure to set the size of the cache just
slightly below the size of the Ramdisk. Cache's larger than 1GB seldom offer any
benefit, so keep it around that size or only slightly more.
For added streamlining, tell your Antivirus software to
exclude the Ramdrive.
You are now set up and ready to go.
A couple of pointers..
You may need to disable 'Fast boot ' in Windows as sometimes
this can shut down the system ahead of the Ramdrive being written when
dismounted.
You may become a little more aware of your CPU fan at times
of high traffic.
Download from here: http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/utils/RAMDisk_Win7-8-8-1_V20206.zip
Download from here: http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/utils/RAMDisk_Win7-8-8-1_V20206.zip
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