Recording to RAM disk?

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Howyadoin,

Has anyone tried tracking to a RAM drive instead of the usual dedicated hard drive? If so, how were the results? Any recommendations for which software to use to create the RAM drive?

Thanks!

-Mark Pags
 
on some other time, there was a big advantage on putting the application, not the data, in a ram disk. I used to did that with Microsoft Excel and the recalculations were much faster. You should try it.
I did it on a mac, which has a built in ram drive application.
 
I can't think of one benefit of tracking to a RAM disk unless your hard drive is limiting the number of tracks you can work with. If this is the case, then you're working with so many tracks that a RAM drive isn't going to solve any problems :)

Most hard disks can keep up just fine, and writing direct to disk is considerably more safe.

I can see using a large RAM disk (maybe 600+) for editing, but only if the drive access is really having an impact on your edits, in which case you're probably working with > 600MB of data so what's the point.

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