Dimmdrive gaming ramdrive 10.000MB/s

[P4-630]

Guys what do you think about this: http://store.steampowered.com/app/337070/
I also read negative comments about it.

It's probably something like what Samsung Magician does with your memory.

 

[RCoon]

It's just RAMDisk software. I tried some once with a 4GB partition. I installed some random game onto it, and it did not improve load times by much more than 2 or 3 seconds. People don't realise game loading times are also limited to other pieces of hardware, not just storage.

There is free RAMDisk software out there. This is not worth any money at all.

 

[P4-630]

It's just RAMDisk software. I tried some once with a 4GB partition. I installed some random game onto it, and it did not improve load times by much more than 2 or 3 seconds. People don't realise game loading times are also limited to other pieces of hardware, not just storage.

There is free RAMDisk software out there. This is not worth any money at all.

Thanks, so it would just not be worth the money then.

 

[GreiverBlade]

Thanks, so it would just not be worth the money then.

indeed. (i don't use ramdisk tho...)

 

[RCoon]

Thanks, so it would just not be worth the money then.

Here's a free 4GB limited version, try it out yourself and see if it's worth your moneny.
http://memory.dataram.com/__downloads/memory/ramdisk/Dataram_RAMDisk_4_4_0_RC32.msi

AMD also do a 4GB limited free version:
http://www.radeonramdisk.com/software_downloads.php

 

[AsRock]

Well with SSD's being around they are pretty pointless now. I used to use DataRam and used to symbolic-links with it for my Arma2\3 server which helped a lot in making the heavy respawns better for everyone connected. Ovverall just save up and go SSD and there should not be any need what so ever.

 

[P4-630]

Well with SSD's being around they are pretty pointless now. I used to use DataRam and used to symbolic-links with it for my Arma2\3 server which helped a lot in making the heavy respawns better for everyone connected. Ovverall just save up and go SSD and there should not be any need what so ever.

I already have 2 SSD's in my laptop, I'm happy with it, but I was just wondering what you guys thought about this software, since I saw this on Steam.
Now I know it's really pointless to buy this since Rcoon showed some links for such software which is free.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Ive tried a few of these things over the years. Seem to remember some advantage back in the days of xp.

i dont think many people bother nowadays especially with W7 and ssds

 

[AsRock]

I already have 2 SSD's in my laptop, I'm happy with it, but I was just wondering what you guys thought about this software, since I saw this on Steam.
Now I know it's really pointless to buy this since Rcoon showed some links for such software which is free.

Yeah, I payed some thing like $10 for Dataram some years ago as i wanted to use much more than 4GB. Just checked Steam and WTF $30 sheesh.

And just checked DataRams pricing and that's gone crazy too, i guess they changed the app with improvements but it's not worth their asking price.

 

[P4-630]

Yeah, I payed some thing like $10 for Dataram some years ago as i wanted to use much more than 4GB. Just checked Steam and WTF $30 sheesh.

And just checked DataRams pricing and that's gone crazy too, i guess they changed the app with improvements but it's not worth their asking price.

So as CAPSLOCKSTUCK said , nowadays it might only be useful for people who still use Win XP.
That people buy this software on Steam, I guess it's the "10.000MB/s" attracting buyers.

 

[P4-630]

Now this is something else, but I remember the days of "ram booster" software to free-up memory on Win 98, at that time I used Macromedia software and it was a problem to run Fireworks with Dreamweaver at the same time and I used "ram booster" software to free up ram all the time , hahaha

 

[mcloughj]

I still have my gigabyte Ramdisk (i-ram) that used 4gb of DDR and a sata 1 interface in a box somewhere.

great idea in theory. less so in reality.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

People generally didnt have a lot of RAM in the days of 98.

 

[P4-630]

People generally didnt have a lot of RAM in the days of 98.

So true, I don't remember how much was installed but probably 256MB or 512MB max.
Everything was sooo slooow back then, we had Norton Internet security on it and when we did a scan, it was almost impossible to do something else at the same time hahaha

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

A massive upgrade would be to double your RAM to 512 mb.

I can remember when i did that i was absolutely staggered by the difference it made.

i asked my 15 year old boy what his earliest computing memory was........


quick as a flash he replied.....................




" fucking dialup"

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Here's a free 4GB limited version, try it out yourself and see if it's worth your moneny.
http://memory.dataram.com/__downloads/memory/ramdisk/Dataram_RAMDisk_4_4_0_RC32.msi

AMD also do a 4GB limited free version:
http://www.radeonramdisk.com/software_downloads.php

I believe that the AMD version is a rebranding of the dataram version. Same cake just different sprinkles.

They do work well if you still use the slower platter drives. Difference is very negligible if you use SSD's. Ramdisk was "required hardware" if you played Vanguard:SOH, LOL

 

[RejZoR]

RAM drives are pointless because they are volatile. If you want speed and usual disk capacity, use HDD+SSD hybrid combo with caching. This for a change actually works for whatever you're using. First level load might be at HDD speeds but all the next will be drastically faster.

I have 18GB of RAM and I couldn't find any good use for the RAM drives. And those massive speeds displayed, they are pointless. You can get 20GB/s if you set the test file to 200MB and have a 10GB RAMdisk. Because the app will simply copy the entire thing into RAM. For half realistic testing, test file has to be larger than the cache. Then you'll see actual throughput...

 

[P4-630]

RAM drives are pointless because they are volatile. If you want speed and usual disk capacity, use HDD+SSD hybrid combo with caching. This for a change actually works for whatever you're using. First level load might be at HDD speeds but all the next will be drastically faster.

I have 18GB of RAM and I couldn't find any good use for the RAM drives. And those massive speeds displayed, they are pointless. You can get 20GB/s if you set the test file to 200MB and have a 10GB RAMdisk. Because the app will simply copy the entire thing into RAM. For half realistic testing, test file has to be larger than the cache. Then you'll see actual throughput...

I use Samsung Magician for my 500GB evo, that should work similar then, that uses some ram as well.

 

[RejZoR]

That's not exactly the same, SSD's use cache to better cope with write/read, particularly write which is a lot slower due to NAND nature. Baically it just writes to RAM super fast and then slowly flushes the cache to SSD a bit later. So, to end user, it seem slike it's doing the job ultra fast, but in reality, that data isn't even on SSD when your app says it has completed something. It's fast but may suck if power goes out when you're doing this...

 

[Blue-Knight]

People don't realise game loading times are also limited to other pieces of hardware, not just storage.

It depends on game. Some games may not only load data but also perform heavy processing on them (decryption, decompression, etc). Especially triple A games which have many things to hide and GBs of data to load and process.

Those extra things can take much more time than to load the data from the disk.

 

[jboydgolfer]

if u put aside the user interface, is it not the same as all the free ramdisk programs out there? for instance, if You dont want the 4Gb limit that amd's offers, try asrocks if You own one of theyre boards, its free to You, no cache limit, but then there is the whole "will you see a benefit"? question.and in my experience, NO is the answer. arma loaded mods better with ramdisk, but you'll see no FPS jumps from faster memory reads and writes....so....$30? nah I'm good. plus it's more dependant on Your RAM what Mb's/second you get, 7-8000 was My tops.10,000Mb/s is a BOLD claim

 

[PerpetualVoid]

8000 is still 16 times faster than the best SSD. Even in RAID 0 RAMdrives are still 11 times faster.

DimmDrive is not worth it. RAMdisk drives are however very worth it. If you can dump the cash to get 128GB of ram it's very worth it. SATA can't even come close to the speeds that RAM can. If you can wait the 20 seconds it takes to upload your IMG of the game you want to play it will be infinitely faster to load everything.

Think about it. When a game requests a texture it goes CPU>GPUVRAM>RAM>HDD/SSD>RAM>VRAM. Not only are you cutting out the SSD load times which are 16 Times slower Unless you are running a PCIe8x RAID 0 Setup(Which is 2000$ by itself) then it's only 4 times slower...You are cutting out the slow as hell SATA connection. Less bus = less electron travel time. While you may not see an abundance of gameplay differentiation, I would bet the game plays a hell of a lot smoother. No waiting on the SSD you see. The most noticeable difference would be in games like Skyrim when you have a lot of fancy textures to load. Cutting a 30 second SSD load time to 2 Seconds is amazing.

Point is the data has a large highway to flow through and less distance to travel which in the end all adds up.

Of course you need to have spent about 2500$ - 3000$ to get to the point were this makes sense. Even then you only have a 48GB RAM Drive to play with. Then again if you are considering a PCIe8x SSD I would recommend RAM Drive over that since they are about the same price in the end.

If you've got the cash RAMDisks forever. There are fully free versions that are just not as pretty as the paid ones. Require a little more knowledge to use too, but they function the same.

As a side Plus your HDD or SSD will last longer as it isn't being used as often. Load file structure once into ram and it's job is done. Longer lifespan.

Rant complete.

 

[jboydgolfer]

"Very Worth It"??!

800$-1000$$ and up . So Battlefield or World of Whichcraft loads in 20 seconds instead of 45 seconds??
I MUST respectfully disagree that it would be "Very Worth it". or Even slightly worth it. Hell, Keep the 10-30 seconds, it's plain NOT worth it. RAM is @ a Ridiculous high right now, NO load time is worth 128GB of RAM ..

 

[qubit]

It's just RAMDisk software. I tried some once with a 4GB partition. I installed some random game onto it, and it did not improve load times by much more than 2 or 3 seconds. People don't realise game loading times are also limited to other pieces of hardware, not just storage.

There is free RAMDisk software out there. This is not worth any money at all.

I was looking at dimmdrive myself a while back and was also put off by the negative comments and the price. I've 16GB RAM in my PC, so I'll try to find a free ram drive and give that a go.

 

[Octopuss]

Even if RAMdisks did anything (as in, improved loading performance over SSDs), just the simple fact I'd have to copy tens of gigabytes onto them each time I reboot the PC is a big no for me. Besides, SSD is all I need. Hell, it's not doing anything most of the time a game is loading anyway. The HDD LED hardly lights up for longer than 5 seconds, and yet it takes like 30 seconds for BF4 to load up.
In very unscientific conclusion - there's absolutely no reason to increase theoretical speeds any further when you already have a SSD. If you don't, buy one.
Price difference between buying 64GB or so DDR3 and a SSD: fucking fortune. Real performance gained from such RAMdisk: none.