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Check this out: RAMDisk - Software - Server Memory Products & Services - Dataram

Cool piece of software to mount part of your RAM as a virtual hard drive. That's my system's biggest bottleneck, and when I tried it the performance increase was absurd.

Very useful for recording video; I've only been able to use about 10% of the videos I've recorded as FRAPS lags horribly whenever I'm recording. With the ramdisk, 100% smooth and stutter-free. The free version is limited to creating a 4GB disk, but that's about 3 minutes' worth of FRAPS video and you can easily copy it onto your hard disk. Worth a look for everyone who's making movies.
 
Off the Rails said:
The free version is limited to creating a 4GB disk, but that's about 3 minutes' worth of FRAPS video and you can easily copy it onto your hard disk. Worth a look for everyone who's making movies.
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Heh thats more like 40 seconds to a minute for me. 1080P 60 fps of game footage goes pretty large. Recording photoshop tutorials not so much and besides i put it at 30 fps for that. I had tried other software before and with PlayClaw which you can dial in the compression this would have been good. But other ramdisk software was netting me like 20 MB/s which was horrible. Will have to check this one out for shits and giggles.

Makes me wish my 16GB of ram was 32 because I could give it a good 20 GB of ram to a ram disk and then write an application to copy off files everytime 2 files are present. Would be able to go several minutes!

Off the Rails said:
Very useful for recording video; I've only been able to use about 10% of the videos I've recorded as FRAPS lags horribly whenever I'm recording.
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Question is where you recording to a blank secondary drive before? I have 2 drives in RAID I use to record to and its only slightly faster than my primary drive. But the main advantage is I keep it empty. Meaning there are no slow downs for sequential writes. You record alot of data to even a half full drive, if its not defragged the drive performance isnt always going to be up to it. At 1080P 60 FPS the drive only needs to sustain 68 MB/s and if your getting 3 minutes out of 4GB of video the speeds needed are much less.

I often see that playback performance is suffering and its not actually anything wrong with the video I recorded. Once transcoded to H.264 or played back when nothing is going on the video is fine. Just trying to cover all the bases for you. If this solution is working for you thats good but you might need to record more than 3 minutes at some point.
 
Oh dear i think this one works very well!

Synthetic Read Test for you, write tests would be a slightly different affair:
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versus my RAID
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1080P 30 FPS flying around oman I got 1:40. The license price is not bad at all i think I am gonna go for it. Throw 10GB at it now and then for short recordings.

Now I just need to write a program to scan the ram disk and offload the first file everytime there is a second file.... word of warning. Copying files off the ram drive can choke the machine for bandwidth. So cant really play while using windows to copy. Have to speed limit the transfer a little.

Additional note. You cant go over 4GB per file on fat32 so if you do want to use this with say Playclaw and exceed that limit than format it manually as NTFS.
 
I laugh hard at your ram! ...sorry buddy :p

How much do you have. Unless its more than 8 you really don't have more than 4 to spare anyways.
 
Off the Rails said:
2x4GB, PC10666. Could be better :S
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Oh then being on the paid version wouldnt do you a damn bit of good anyways. NEED MOAR. Yeah I have 4x4GB 1600 Ive never really tested it out or anything but now I want 32 haha. Actually a 30GB SATA 3 SSD is cheaper and pretty damned effective.
 
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I loaded and played BF3 and recorded with FRAPS but I don't know what I am doing but there are some screenshots. :)
 
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