Ram Disk Creator for Mac

User Reviews

• wrong promise \"can play 2 hours DivX\"

  post605/14/2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />whatever this promise might mean, i have copied an .avi-movie on the ram-disk and had to mention that the hard-drive-access, using the activity-monitor, was the same than watching it from the hard-drive by itself. guess it will be the same with whatever movie-format. so what for? i was suspicious because the application DockFun from the same company is so far ok, but has seldom an update and a little bit arrogant support or feedback. they make money and are not a reason for a lot of fun there at Donelleschi.

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• wrong promise \"can play 2 hours DivX\"

  post605/14/2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />whatever this promise might mean, i have copied an .avi-movie on the ram-disk and had to mention that the hard-drive-access, using the activity-monitor, was the same than watching it from the hard-drive by itself. guess it will be the same with whatever movie-format. so what for? i was suspicious because the application DockFun from the same company is so far ok, but has seldom an update and a little bit arrogant support or feedback. they make money and are not a reason for a lot of fun there at Donelleschi.

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• Go away

  Duckhue12/27/2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I didn't notice any speed up in Photoshop or anything else. I did notice that the disk was still showing up in the finder window after it was off the desktop and could not be ejected in the window. I had to do a restart. I hope there's no other fun things it left for me.

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• Works great! except where you need it..

  Artimus T. Dwibbs6/15/2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I've heard there are big problems with RAM disks in 10.3, and kudos to the author on the interface and success with this thing.<br> <br> I wanted this thing so I could put safari's cache in the RAM (for security and performance reasons).<br> <br> It's probably a problem with safari, but I couldn't link it or alias it to ~/Library/Caches/Safari and have safari use it.<br> <br> Maybe if the author would allow us to set the mounted disk name instead of the mounted directory (ram1285.2 or whatever), it'd work, but until then I can't use this thing. Also, it'd be nice to mount the volume in /Volumes/ instead of as a disk image.. So it's minus two stars for today!

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• Quality Product

  Steve Holden3/31/2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I really don't understand how the user below could say that this developer is playing jokes on us! it's pathetic! Ram Disk Creator is the only application which works. Try to use it as the user below did. Make 256Mb disk, then copy a file of 100MB inside and then duplicate it. Ok it takes 1 second. (of course you must not have 100 applications open and you must have a GB of RAM) Do the same in your Hard disk..... the duplicate procedure will take about 5-10 Seconds.... try it and see if the user below is right or not...

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• Nice Trick

  l009com3/30/2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Nice trick, doesn't work though. I made an 800 MB disk image (i have 1.25 GB of ram, so i wasn't near full), and i opened activity monitor and watched disk activity. Its just a regular disk image. Everything read to and from the "ram disk" is read and written to your hard drives as well. I guess if someone tells you its faster, you just imagine it to be? I even duplicated files that were on the ram disk. Each duplication created the matching amount of disk activity. Its not a ram disk, its just a regular disk image. Else its a ram disk that is mirrored on your hard drive, which 100% negates every advantage of a ram disk in the first place. Let me put it another way. It sucks, it doesn't work.

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• RAM disks are useful

  jmsuijkerbuijk_dotmac3/26/2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I have been testing this little app on what I used RAM disks for pre OS X, allocated to store temporary files on, as a scratch disk. Since the temp file is read directly from RAM instead of from a physical disk, the application writing and reading these temp files is far more responsive. Of course RAM disks make sense, when put to proper use.

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• Finally ...

  Gulliver643/26/2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />... a RAM-disc that really works! I tried running SETI@home from the RAM disc and it works perfectly.

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• It speeds up my apache server!

  Steve Holden3/26/2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Ram DIsks are useful if you have lots of RAM... if you have few there's no sense. but many today have 1024MB and having a disk of 512 can really speed up many tasks. Personally I run an Apache server which ship my pages on a 1024MB ram disk created with this utility on a Xserver with 2GB memory. It's very fast... if you think how much a RAID solution costs!!!! With a ram disk it's faster. Of course the size is limited but my web sites are within 800MB. Ram Disk Creator is a powerful app which do what it says.

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