RAM Drive (SDW Bait)

[MiRai]

Earlier today, against my better judgement, I picked up 32GB of RAM for my old, yet still a beast, P67 system. It's going to replace the 16GB I currently have in there now which has been holding me back in a few different ways.

First and foremost, 32GB will allow me do more with video editing, but it should also allow me to run more than 30 clients on my machine at once. As much as I like to push the limits of a system I've really been wanting to fire up a full raid of 40 to cruise around a major city but, 16GB has held me back. Also, seeing as WoW's new file system has dramatically decreased the amount of space that it takes up on the drive (currently 19.5GB for me), I should be able to fit the entire folder into a RAM drive and then have about 10GB left on my system which is plenty to run a 5-box, or maybe even, a 10-box test.

For those interested, I chose the G.Skill Ripjaws to replace the Corsair Vengeance I currently have in there now. I've heard nothing but good things about G.Skill and I've really wanted to try them out -- Now I'll get my chance.

If UPS wants to show up at my door on Saturday, then hopefully I can get this show on the road sooner than later. I've been thinking of revamping the Multiboxing Hardware Science sticky anyway since MoP has given a slight update to the video engine and I figured this might be a nice way to start it all off.

In all actuality, I highly doubt I'd use a RAM drive for everyday use unless it shows some unbelievably fantastic results that I don't get when using an SSD -- But I think it'll be fun to play with none-the-less.

I'll start Googling and looking around other hardware forums, but does anyone here have any experience with RAM drive software?

UPDATE: Playing with some different choices at the moment:





Decisions, decisions...


Note: Don't mind that the Direct IO is using an 8GB drive. It was a comparison run versus a 4GB drive to see if performance changed by doubling the size of the drive -- There was no difference in performance between the two.