RAMDisk used as a temporay recording storage

[BooCHAK]

I would like to use the RAMDisk as a temporay recording storage so I can put the load on the RAM instead of my HDD.

The question is: what if i run out of RAMDisk memory?
I Mean I also use it as my Firefox's cache and System TEMP to also put the load off my HDD. A 10min footage takes 1.5GB of space (sometimes a little less.)

I'm worried that if there is a scenario when my pc is fetching some data to the System TEMP folder while I am recording and I am hitting the the limit, I imagine something bad could happen between my HDD and RAMDIsk communications.

Will my PC crash or will anything get corrupted? Should I use the RAMDisk as a temporay recording storage, or should I keep the temporay storage on the HDD?

My capture software is Nvidia Shadowplay.

[Carl Uzumaki Hyuuga]

I really do not understand much of this.
But I think there might be
Some memory overload, I think
I do not know much better and better keep on hard disk memso .....
my opinion.

[Satoru]

Why spend money on RAM for a RAMdisk

When you can just buy SSD at a fraction of the cost to get the same benefit

[BooCHAK]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Why spend money on RAM for a RAMdisk

When you can just buy SSD at a fraction of the cost to get the same benefit

Let me clarify: I already have 16gb of RAM installed and I am using 4gb of that for ramdisk.

What I want to know is this: if I exceed the RAMdisk limit, will it do something bad to my PC?

[ᴠᴀʀ]

I understand what you want, but this isn't nearly as efficient as using SSD's for temp storage during recording and writing the completed file to HDD afterwards.

RAM disk can be configured and set on fixed sizes, so the part about corruption about hitting limit is purely based on the size of the video and the size of RAM disk partitions you created plus the setting you configured in shadowplay (The size of the video's and how you're recording)

If you only have 8 GB and you use 4GB on RAM disk partition, that only leaves 4 GB left for system + game + shadowplay. So, if you want to avoid corruption and crashes, you can't go above 1 or 2 GB on RAM disk partitions.

The partition sizes are fixed, so if you have 8 GB and you're playing the newest AAA games with everything set to ultra , you surely should check how much you're consuming on each game. To be on the safe side, 8 GB is what you NEED overall for Windows + Recording + AAA game with settings to ultra. So if you have 16 GB, you can create 8 GB RAM disk partitions, but with only 8 GB, you should focus on 6/7 GB for windows + shadowplay + games and shadowplay configured for small videofiles. But on 8 GB, that only leaves you like 1 or 2 GB left for RAM disk.

Knowing how much your system consumes on high usage is usefull in knowing how big your RAM disk partitions can be.

tbh, I would just buy an SSD.

edit :

Originally posted by BooCHAK:

Originally posted by Satoru:

Why spend money on RAM for a RAMdisk

When you can just buy SSD at a fraction of the cost to get the same benefit

Let me clarify: I already have 16gb of RAM installed and I am using 4gb of that for ramdisk.

What I want to know is this: if I exceed the RAMdisk limit, will it do something bad to my PC?

It's totally fine.. You have 16 GB, so unless you set in shadowplay for files bigger than 4GB, i would increase it to prevent RAM disk from crashing..(I don't think it will crash for real because Shadowplay will just announce that there isn't enough free space left.)

If it's below 4GB on videofiles for shadowplay, don't worry about it.

[BooCHAK]

Originally posted by sm0:

I understand what you want, but this isn't nearly as efficient as using SSD's for temp storage during recording and writing the completed file to HDD afterwards.

RAM disk can be configured and set on fixed sizes, so the part about corruption about hitting limit is purely based on the size of the video and the size of RAM disk partitions you created plus the setting you configured in shadowplay (The size of the video's and how you're recording)

If you only have 8 GB and you use 4GB on RAM disk partition, that only leaves 4 GB left for system + game + shadowplay. So, if you want to avoid corruption and crashes, you can't go above 1 or 2 GB on RAM disk partitions.

The partition sizes are fixed, so if you have 8 GB and you're playing the newest AAA games with everything set to ultra , you surely should check how much you're consuming on each game. To be on the safe side, 8 GB is what you NEED overall for Windows + Recording + AAA game with settings to ultra. So if you have 16 GB, you can create 8 GB RAM disk partitions, but with only 8 GB, you should focus on 6/7 GB for windows + shadowplay + games and shadowplay configured for small videofiles. But on 8 GB, that only leaves you like 1 or 2 GB left for RAM disk.

Knowing how much your system consumes on high usage is usefull in knowing how big your RAM disk partitions can be.

tbh, I would just buy an SSD.

edit :

Originally posted by BooCHAK:

Let me clarify: I already have 16gb of RAM installed and I am using 4gb of that for ramdisk.

What I want to know is this: if I exceed the RAMdisk limit, will it do something bad to my PC?

It's totally fine.. You have 16 GB, so unless you set in shadowplay for files bigger than 4GB, i would increase it to prevent RAM disk from crashing..(I don't think it will crash for real because Shadowplay will just announce that there isn't enough free space left.)

If it's below 4GB on videofiles for shadowplay, don't worry about it.

I don't want to buy an SSD, (I don't want to spend anymore money on my PC) but thanks for giving the answer I was looking for.

[Kargor]

Also, a RAM disk is kind of pointless, since disk accesses are cached in RAM anyway -- reading the same thing twice will only actually perform a disk access once.

The good thing is that the above isn't necessarily true. If the RAM is needed for something else, the system will just throw out the cached copy of the data, and read it again from disk next time it's needed. So, it's automatically using all your memory, but will not prevent more important uses like running programs.

Basically, the disk caching is an automatic RAM disk that grows and shrinks, fills itself automatically, and makes sure you don't loose data either.