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#Dataram ramdisk ssd pro
Performance for each set of volumes is:Ĥx4TB RAID-10 -> 220MB/s write, 300MB/s readĢ56MB Samsung 840 Pro SSD -> ~250MB/s write, 300MB/s readĭataRAM RAMDisk -> 4000MB/s write, 4000MB/s read The volumes are broken down into 4x10GB volumes on a 4x4TB RAID-10 array, 1x10GB volume on a 256GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD and 1x10GB volume on a RAMDisk (courtesy of DataRAM). They have the exact same volumes, 6x10GB volumes in total. Does this fix the performance issues in 2012? How does the new 2-disk parity perform? This allows you to use fast media like flash to be a staging ground so writes complete faster and then the writes to the fast media can transfer that data to the slower storage at a time that is more convient. Maybe they want to adjust their use case to volumes under 1GB?Īnyways, with 2012R2 there maybe some feature enhancements including a new feature for storage spaces 'tiered storage' and write back caching. I have no idea who thought anything like that would be acceptable. If you setup a Storage Spaces parity volume at 12TB (available space) and you have 10TB of data to copy to it just to get it going it will take you 8738 seconds, or 145 hours, or 6 straight days. I find this statement to be a bit amusing because trying to back up anything 20MB/sec takes forever. Microsoft's justification for it is that it's not meant to be used for anything except "workloads that are almost exclusively read-based, highly sequential, and require resiliency, or workloads that write data in large sequential append blocks (such as bulk backups)."
#Dataram ramdisk ssd windows
I have zero problems while working on a laptop though (except some because of bugged OS).Windows Storage Spaces parity performance on Windows Server 2012 is terrible. I am not sure if it is because of bugged OS or because of paging file being on ramdrive. It happens when it is almost turned off so nothing bad happens. Sometimes I get blue screens while shutting computer off. And it has bad blocks (most of them I locked on the hidden partition). I must say that I have old bugged 250GB HDD as the only drive in my laptop now. So I am just cautious just in case OS will be frustrated that on the next boot it will have an erased page file. I also set OS to clear pagefile before shutdown because anyway ramdrive will be cleared on the next boot. So yeah, I create 512MB page file on RAMdisk. You may be shocked but even if you have 32GB some programs (games and maybe others) still use 256-512MB of paging file if it exists. The only reason why pagefile usualy is disabled on SSD is writes that it produces to the SSD's cells. No, seriously - PAGEFILE! I am not joking.
Just pay attention that nowadays SSDs can handle writes much better than previous and will live for 10 years or so if you will not use it in a very hard way.
#Dataram ramdisk ssd install
It will save write to the SSD and make it install faster. When you install programs, or do anything at all which goes to TEMP folder you may set it to use RAMdisk. English I guess not But as it has almost no GUI you can try to use russian. I use QSOFT Enterprise which is MUCH faster.
It is good because of good GUI where you can start learning about ramdisk and using save/load image. It is NOT fast though and has bad 4K reads and writes. You can copy the *.img file for safe keeping - and also have different files/configurations set up to load if you like.Ĭlick to expand.Somebody was calling me?Īt first I played with RAMDisk for some time and became very skilled with it.Īs someone said above DATARAM Ramdisk is OK. It was also handy as a way to have that data (like my FF settings) backed up. I would definitely recommend a RamDisk with a standard HDD, though. My mSATA is setup with a cache partition, a hibernation partition and there's plenty of room left for a pagefile, temp directory and the other overactive data files/directories.
But I'm not using it anymore because the speed improvement isn't really that notable with ssd's and there is a bit of a hit during shutdown when it writes the data back to disk. I figured it would deal with alot of the random writes and save wear a bit on my ssd drive. I had it set up with my FF, Chrome and Outlook folders as well as my temp directory before I had an mSATA on top of a main SSD drive. It can load a designated *.img file at startup and save it on shutdown so the ram disk doesn't disappear when you shut down.
#Dataram ramdisk ssd software
DataRam Ramdisk software is free for a 4GB or less ramdisk and the latest version works really well.