ImDisk Toolkit Reviews and Details

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• Save your disk, write files directly into RAM with /dev/shm

  For those interested in a windows equivalent, ImDisk [0] has a nice ramdisk creation utility with options such as allocating memory dynamically, ntfs compression, and more. For the more venturous there is GPURamDrive [1] , not as many options, as it was made as a more of an experiment, but with dedicated gpu's adding more and more vram, why not? [0] https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/ [1] - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Transcoding to RAM disk - is it worth it?

  4: Depends on our OS but on windows I used ImDisk then set the transcoding directory in settings. Those same settings are how you'd set it to a dedicated disk as well. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Seems like you can no longer play RUST on a RAM Drive. No more super loading into RUST at 10gb/s for me :(, Stupid EAC.

  Since I have 128GB of ram, https://i.imgur.com/CkBzNvS.png I like to shove my games into ram and load them very fast. Up until a few days ago it was working for RUST, but now it doesn't work any more because of EAC. On normal nvme ssd I can load into a 5k map in about good 5 minutes, but on a ram drive, I was able to load into a 5k map in a minute or two. You can check out imdisk-toolkit and a basic video on it... Source: about 3 years ago

• Showcase: Speed difference between Plex Server on HDD and SSD

  If your server is hosted on Windows you can use any RAMdisk software. I use ImDisk Toolkit. Set up a RAM disk to launch at Windows startup, set the drive letter, and in your Plex server settings > Transcoder (enable advanced settings), set your transcoder directory to the RAMdisk. Source: over 3 years ago

• Does PS have a "create a RAM disk of X size" command or module?

  Check out https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/. Source: over 3 years ago

• SD seems to not delete its temporary files under some conditions; this is how you get rid of them!

  Install RAMdisk, set as drive R, just don't select the option to store its contents on the actual drive. Source: over 3 years ago

• Plex serve choice dilemma (Australia)

  Get ramdisk software and set the transcode directory to the ramdisk so you don't burn up your SSD. I set it to 4gb dynamic. Source: over 3 years ago

• Can we stop getting patch files getting downloaded on system partition?

  If you have 32GB ram, consider creating a 10GB Ramdisk and moving your Temp folder to that instead: https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/. Source: over 3 years ago

• Keep getting this error message when trying to rip The Rocky Horror Picture Show (the file size on the disc is 20gb, but it only produces 9gb before stopping, and then I can't even open the file in VLC)

  I encountered something similar with brand new, perfect looking discs (2 of the 3 in a set). I used the free program ImDisk (https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/) to create an ISO image of the problem discs and then opened the ISOs with MakeMKV. I was then able to rip the contents. Source: over 3 years ago

• Ssd cache

  For windows I use https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Is there a way to force Plex to use RAM for transcoding instead of SSD? Built a dedicated transcoder but it doesn't use the RAM which I find odd.

  Https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/ to create a RAMDisk. Source: almost 4 years ago

• How to "import" an old game into VirtualBox Win3.1 instance?

  Download the free/open source ImDisk Toolkit from Sourceforge. Source: almost 4 years ago

• All flash RAID, 111TB (32 x SAS 3.84TB SSDs)

  Interesting, I just checked 128GB RAM disk using ImDisk application, with "Allocate Memory Dynamically" option off, default cluster size of 4k. The numbers are not so impressive. Namely,. Source: about 4 years ago

• Hyper-V VM, must slower than Physical Desktop

  Something to consider if a thing is writing large amounts of temp files - setup a ram disk and point the process there or setup a symbolic link to it. Ram disk is always going to be faster than a physical drive - and if SSDs are being used it'll save the write ware on them. Source: about 4 years ago

• Dedicated SSD for Transcoding

  I'm using imdisk: https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/. Source: about 4 years ago

• LPT: Use RAM Disk to store temporary files on your computer that are deleted automatically upon next reboot

  There are many tools for the job, but I personally prefer the open source ImDisk Toolkit - it can allocate memory dynamically, don't have limits on disk size, and also has shortcuts to move Windows' temporary folders to the newly created disk. Source: over 4 years ago

• How to stop constant, continuous, ceaseless and incessant disk usage?

  I created a 2GB ram disk using ImDisk Toolkit and use that for temp file/FF caching. Source: over 4 years ago

• Using portable apps instead of Chocolatey and some other recommended Windows tools

  ImDisk Toolkit to create a snappy RAM disk, also a portable app, no install needed. Source: over 4 years ago

• How to watch live TV on Plex Media Server

  This is where Plex generates the file it's transcoding to for the client to then stream. I use the ImDisk Toolkit to create a 4GB RAM drive as 'R:' then point the above setting to use R: as it's cache location. Source: over 4 years ago

• patch notes

  First, you gotta have excess RAM. I have 64 GB. Second, get some software to make the RAM drive. I used this, made a 17 GB RAM drive. Next, make a directory on the RAM drive called "MSFScache" or something like that, then launch MSFS, go to the data settings in MSFS, and set the rolling cache to the directory you just created. I used a 16GB size for my rolling cache. Source: almost 5 years ago

• Creating a RAMDisk for Win10. What settings to use to make the Win10 PC to NOT use SSD cache for the RAMDisk?

  I'm going to install the IMDisk ToolKit Ramdisk. Https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/. Source: almost 5 years ago