Hi Guys,
I'm new to RamDisk and pretty excited about it. I have a netbook with a 160GB hard drive that shows a good SMART report. No bad sectors. And throughput is very decent at 50mb/s. But for some reason it has a very slow - on average 26.4ms - seek time. I did all I could to help it, and nothing changed anything. The performance of the netbook was quite bad.
Then I stumbled upon RamDisk. The difference is amazing most of the time. I have set 160mb as the virtual drive, and then I mapped the two Windows 7 (Starter) Temp directories to it. I also mapped IE's temp folder to the ramdisk.
Here's my concern. What is going to happen if Windows needs to do a big job - say, installing a large .NET file or a service pack - and the TEMP folder is not big enough? Is there provision for overflow?
Also, what file system, if any, should I be using? I chose FAT32 for its low overhead.
Thanks for any insight you can give. Great prog!