The RAMDisk Speed Solution

cTrix_ · Post by **cTrix_** » Mon Feb 25, 2002 06:11

I'm currently running Resolume on a Athlon 750 with a Geforce 2 duel head, triggering using a Roland Groovebox 505, and an old Yamaha DX7.

Once I got around the fact I had to run the video window in monitor 1 to get the fast DirectDraw smooth playback, I was still very wary of using Resolume at all, simply because it was thrashing my hard disk. Look at your hard disk light next time you use Resolume - it doesn't go out!

Being an old DOS dinosaur, I decided to bring out RAMDISK.SYS (an old 16-bit program which creates "vitual" disk drives out of RAM) only to find it has a 32MB bottleneck!! Never would have guessed that back in '93.

There is an application though which is called RamDisk and it can be downloaded for free from: http://www.cenatek.com/ It allows you to to create a RAM drive up to 2GB, and also has 32-bit access. (98/ME/NT/2000) It also allows a "save image" option which dumps it to a hard disk when you shut it down and vice-versa.

The demo "restricts" you to 100 uses, although it can be reinstalled and revitalised. I'd highly recommend using it (or something simular) as your poor little disk drives might start developing bad sectors; especailly if you take your machine to drum and bass gigs with 2000watt sub stacks like I do. Which brings up another point. Bass frequencies can play havoc with hard disk platters if the wrong harmonic is hit; so you want to absolutly minimise hard disk action. I've already lost a disk from recording gigs.

If you run out of hard disk space (I'm only giving it 320MB) you can always multi-task to explorer, delete the folders you have used, and drag some more across... because Resolume is running from "RAM" it doesn't slow down too much - and if you are MIDI controlling, the performance goes on.

Sooo.... maybe in version 2, can we see some clip caching in RAM?! Most people have 256+ of RAM these days, so loading a deck of 160MB of AVI's shouldn't be too much of an issue for the majority.

Wikid app though. Feels raw and to the point.

unjulation_ · Post by **unjulation_** » Mon Feb 25, 2002 21:24

interesting software link well worth checking out

chears

Ruud · Post by **Ruud** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 22:51

Fast Resolume performance directly from RAM-drive.

I have a laptop with only 4200rpm hd so very slow. Have to spare some money to buy a 7200rpm 8mb cache USB 2.0 I suppose is best, do acces time mather? Greetz

RAM-drive
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb ... 7/4/05.ASP

Is the Microsoft's version of this program

Danger · Post by **Danger** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 10:15

some links...
http://www.superspeed.com/ramdisk.html
http://www.superspeed.com/ramdiskplus.html
http://www.ramdisk.tk/
http://www.cenatek.com/product_ramdisk.cfm

metaprofessor · Post by **metaprofessor** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 02:01

i just tried ramdisk xp pro, and think it's great. the problem is that with only 1 GB of ram, a ramdisk with 450 MB's, but 5 GB's of clips, the ramdisk just isn't enough.

i think the performance is impressive, and this leads me to think that the guys at resolume should make the program RAM-based and not disk-based. it must be harder to program, otherwise i think they would have done it by now, right?

Lazy-J · Post by **Lazy-J** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:47

There is a other way to speed up access to AVI's.
Put your most used videos on one (or 2/3/4)
USB 2.0 Keys
I try it , it work fine, and make hollidays for your hard drive!

Sense · Post by **Sense** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 18:40

The ramdiskxp from http://www.cenatek.com scared the hell outa me! After install like 400mb, formated ntfs, I tried it in resolume. Well I don't have to do it for speed, the same performance from my hd 7200 rpm. Does ease the drive tension.

Well I kinda forgot about it. Today I boot my laptop. BOOM! blue screen in xp. now that's not common I can tell you that. Page Faults, had some problems with crappy memory so I was like, not again!! But suddenly I remembered ramdiskXP, uninstalling that bastard fixed the problem instantly, so people take good care. And stop the driver before reboot

Cheerz,
nz
Sense

[Edited on 24-11-2004 by Sense]

Rincevent · Post by **Rincevent** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 09:49

Lazy-J =>

Did you really tried the USB key solution or are you just spreading the idea ?

Because USB keys usually have a very poor transfert rate when compared with HDD.

i made this post about it ( the post )
and bart agreed.

[Edited on 25-11-2004 by Rincevent]

vj docmotion · Post by **vj docmotion** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 10:20

i hear about a flashharddisk, with 14000 speed ...
have any out there a link;)

Rincevent · Post by **Rincevent** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 10:28

14000 speed...

yeah but...

14000 what ?

if it's a flash drive it's certainly not rpm.

Resolume Forum

The RAMDisk Speed Solution

USB 2.0 Key

Scared the crap outa me