Running UVS in a Ram drive

drl711 · Post by **drl711** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 9:29 pm

Has anyone tried running VideoStudio or any other Ulead apps in a ram drive? I hear rendering,etc is noticably faster (although not as safe (G).

I am thinking of creating a drive-loading UVS into it and running a test project.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 11:37 pm

drl711
I would be interested in reading the results of your experiments with this.

Steve J

gordon_fan_24 · Post by **gordon_fan_24** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:38 am

by RAM drive, do you mean a USB Flash drive? I'm not familiar with the term RAM drive.

drl711 · Post by **drl711** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:38 am

Definitions of RAM drive on the Web:

* A disk drive that exists only in extended memory in your terminal or reader. You create, read, write, and delete files on a RAM drive the same way you can on a hard disk drive. RAM drives are faster than hard disk drives because the contents of a RAM drive are, by definition, always resident in RAM. The contents are destroyed when you cold boot the device.
http://www.intermec.com/eprise/main/Int ... lossary_QR

* A RAM disk, ramdisk or RAMdrive is a segment of active computer memory, RAM, which is being used as secondary storage, typically a role for a disk drive. Access times are greatly improved, because RAM disks are approximately a thousand times faster than hard disk drives. However, durability of data through power loss is completely absent, because they are made of normal volatile RAM. As a result, RAM disks lose their contents once the computer is turned off. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_drive

gordon_fan_24 · Post by **gordon_fan_24** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:58 am

ohh, so its a drive that resides on the RAM, that acts like a hard drive, so that would make me wrong in calling it a flash drive. Wouldn't that take away from the usable RAM for the actual editing?

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:08 am

How much RAM do you have?