ImDisk RAMdisk setup for Windows, Chrome & Premiere Pro caches

[@pverbakel]

Finally somebody who manages to talks the Queens language, and explains the setup very well, including possible problems, because it is simply never easy as the soup is served in pratctice! Great work !

[@Helpful-Stuff]

Thanks for the nice comment. Its always good to get feedback when a video has been helpful :)

[@ericn3519]

Thank you! Using this info for my PLEX home server. It's HDD to keep the system cheap but this should keep the spindle reader less taxed while people are streaming movies. Saved this video for updating my video editing rig as well. Thanks again.

[@Helpful-Stuff]

Thanks for the comment. I am glad the video was helpful 👍

[@nevillecawood3727]

You want to look up what the: "Copy only files with Archive attribute" (In ImDisk [Data] tab) does. Only the files that have changed are then written/saved on shutdown. Thats both faster and saves on writes/TBW. For speed: An exFAT File system, with a 4KB Cluster Size is best. (In ImDisk [Basic] and [Advanced] tabs) (Cluster Size then matches the Data Block Size used in DRAM) Ticking "Quick Format" will speed up the creation/mount process dramatically. "Use AWE physical memory" will ensure that the RamDisk data is never written to the PageFile. Not much point in having one in the 1st place if it is...

[@Helpful-Stuff]

Hi, thanks for the very useful comment. All your suggestions make sense. I want to test on my own system first. Then I will either remake the video or add captions to the existing video. Thanks.

[@robh5695]

This is great advice. Thanks!

[@JasonChung0]

Thank you, it helps a lot with my laptop that only has 8GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD(almost full). After applying your tip with my upgraded RAM to 16GB, my chrome and windows are both flying :)

[@Helpful-Stuff]

Great ... thanks for the feedback. I am glad the video helped you improve the speed of both Windows & Chrome :)

[@demeaningplebny1363]

A very helpful and well done tutorial. THX!

[@Helpful-Stuff]

Thanks for the nice comment :)

[@n-i-n-o]

You also can create a symbolic link for every cache folder to the new RAMDISK, so you don't have to change the variables.

[@Helpful-Stuff]

Thanks for your comment. I agree you can use symbolic links. I did try using symbolic links when I was doing some testing before I made the video ... however, something happened in the testing which made me decide not to use symbolic links in the video. Unfortunately I cannot remember what made me decide not to use symbolic links. Old age :( If I remember I will add a more helpful comment!

[@annybodykila]

I do use ahk, and now i use this to store files i use for scripts to "talk" to each other, so i dont make excessive read/writes to my hdd. Thanks

[@Helpful-Stuff]

Thanks for the comment. I am glad the video was helpful 😀

[@SantoshGoyal-lx5en]

Bro i have 8GB ram laptop so how much RAM should i use in this programme

[@iceberg789]

any way to set up a disk cache with this? something similar to what primocache dies.

[@Helpful-Stuff]

I have just had a look at the ROMEX website. www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/index.html ROMEX has 2 products PrimoCache (that you mentioned) and also PrimoRAMdisk. ImDisk RAMdisk is similar to the PrimoRAMdisk in terms of functionality. Primocache has different functionality to a RAMdisk. So, I don't believe that you can get ImDisk RAMDisk to do the same as PrimoCache.

[@drewphilip]

@@Helpful-Stuff Primo cache is Chinese software that could be devastating because they gain root access, and is not open source. With this said, any and all implementations imitating primo cache with IMramdisk would be HUGELY appreciated!!!!!! Because it does work monsterishly.

[@Helpful-Stuff]

@drewphilip Thanks for the warning about PrimoCache. I am very happy with ImDisk RAMdisk ... so absolutely no plans to try PrimoCache - especially after your comment!!!

[@iceberg789]

@@Helpful-Stuff thanks for explaining. any other way to set up a ram cache for ssds/hdds ?

[@Helpful-Stuff]

I have no experience setting up a RAM Cache so I can't help. Sorry

[@esunayg]

great explanation. One question thouh, while shutdowning does it save only modified files or doesnt care and overwrite all folder contents (non excluded)? I am soo concerned about the 650gb tbw limit.

[@Helpful-Stuff]

It's really difficult to tell what it is doing during shutdown. My best guess is that it is backing up the entire RAMDisk (except the excluded folders) ... this is based on the amount of time it takes when I have had a very large Adobe Premiere Pro cache. You can save your RAMDisk to an HDD rather than to an SSD.

[@nevillecawood3727]

See my new comment. the "...Archive attribute..." bit.

[@williamandresr]

I'm considering using a RAMdisk for the TEMP and TMP folders in Windows 10 Pro x64, but I'm concerned if this could affect Windows updates that require a restart. Do Windows updates write to these folders and expect to find temporary files there after a restart if one is required during the update installation?

[@Helpful-Stuff]

I have had my RAMdisk for 18 months now ... during that time I have obviously had Windows Updates ... some of which required a restart. I have had no problems with either the RAMdisk or Windows Update. I understand your concern but I think my practical experience is that there isn't an issue. I think the "temporary" nature of files in TMP and TEMP means that if an update wants to store information in a file that is available after a restart then TMP and TEMP are not the place to save those files because any files in TMP and TEMP are by definition temporary and will not persist after a restart whether the TMP and TEMP folders are stored on a RAMDisk an HDD or an SSD. If a Windows update wants to store information that is available after a restart it must be stored somewhere else ... not in TMP or TEMP.

[@annybodykila]

Imdisk can add system variables, you should be fine with any program that makes use of them, so long as you check said box.

[@gytoser801]

can you delete the non essential part of program so that ram disk still keeps running

[@Helpful-Stuff]

I have not tried to do that.... I think its too risky to try doing it!!!

[@seanmavhima4245]

Thanks thanks

[@Helpful-Stuff]

Thanks for the comment ... glad the video was helpful :)

[@Bradley_UA]

This is a helpfull video, but im issapointed with the lack of horses.

[@Helpful-Stuff]

Sorry that there were no horses in the video :) Before COVID lockdown I was only doing horse videos. During COVID lockdown I started to do other videos that I could do at home. I changed the name of my channel to show that there were non-horse videos. At the moment I only do a few horse videos so I am considering changing the name of my channel again and not mentioning horses in the name of the channel.

[@googleslave]

can i use this as drive cache instead of temp?

[@Helpful-Stuff]

Yes, you can use the RAMdisk for Windows Temp ... watch the video from about 4m20s for instructions.

[@captaincomando8107]

i can use windows temp without specifc folder to reload when re-start ?

[@Helpful-Stuff]

The Windows TEMP folder is recreated and any files needed are re-created when required by Windows 10. So you do not need to save the contents of Windows TEMP when you shutdown and then reload them when W10 restarts.

[@captaincomando8107]

@@Helpful-Stuff very fast and very thank you

[@captaincomando8107]

browser edge the cache folder same commando like chrome ? i try --disk-cache-dir="R:\Edge Cache" and the folder ramdisk empty

[@Helpful-Stuff]

Sorry .... I have never used Edge.

[@captaincomando8107]

@@Helpful-Stuff chrome work only with this command? --disk-cache-dir="R:\Chrome Cache" because edge same engine chrome

[@Helpful-Stuff]

I know that Chrome and Edge use the same engine so it is possible that the same command that is used for Chrome will work. The problem is that I never use Edge so I have no personal experience that will enable me to say if it will or will not work.

[@captaincomando8107]

@@Helpful-Stuff with edge not work because cache folder is protect. ty any way. cheers!

[@thebrindils1710]

@@captaincomando8107 you can use apps freeware from softperfect cacherelocator cmiiw

[@whocares3132]

How can I set cache of a specific app? for my case its "Sabnzbd"

[@Helpful-Stuff]

I am not familiar with Sabnzbd so I did a quick Google search and discovered this discussion which states "Cache is obsolete since 0.6.0" forums.sabnzbd.org/viewtopic.php?t=17365 So it looks like the latest version of Sabnzbd dont have a cache that you can move to a RAM Disk.

[@SBL972-one]

be careful with the memory defined in virtualbox!! (when you use the software

[@Helpful-Stuff]

I have never used Virtualbox. Thanks for the advice for anybody watching the video who uses Virtualbox. 👍

[@SBL972-one]

@@Helpful-Stuff when you use (run os) on virtualbox, you define a value for the memory. so this value is deducted from the real ram. so take into consideration what you define and your real ram

[@AndyU96]

Very helpful, thank you. Your speech was so good that I didnt mind the british accent, which I normally tend to despise. Although I do have one question, how the hell does the program even know where in the disk to put the files to during a shutdown? As far as the RAMdisk is concerned, the files could have come to it from even the desktop. How does it know where the files originally belong to? Edit: Nevermind, for some reason I assumed that RAMdisk was sending the files to their original places upon shutdown. Nay, rather, it just saves them to that one folder you specify and reloads from there upon restart. Why did I even assume that I wonder

[@Helpful-Stuff]

Thanks for the comment. I am glad the video was helpful and you could understand my British accent :) I think you have answered your own question :) I hope the RAMdisk works well for you. I haven't had any problems with it ... it just works reliably :)

[@standtallvets5386]

It erases my Temp folders on restart and doesn't work at all.

[@Helpful-Stuff]

Strange. Windows must be storing TEMP files somewhere otherwise it wouldn't work. Are you sure that the environment variables are setup correctly (5mins0secs in the video) to use the RAMdisk?

[@simonebattaglia9093]

@@Helpful-Stuff Exactely the same problem: I saw the video 3 times, checked 3 times: no way 😞

[@Helpful-Stuff]

I am really sorry that you are having problems and it does not work for you. My RAMDisk has been working for over a year and I have not had any problems at all. I don't understand why it is erasing your TEMP folders ... there must be a TEMP folder somewhere for Windows to work.