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<blockquote data-quote="powermarcel10" data-source="post: 1100792" data-attributes="member: 108759">Hi guys, a bit off topic, sorry for that, but maybe some of you can give me some answers as I have personally no experience with the use of a ramdisk drive.. I'm building a new high end htpc&nbsp; at this moment with 16GB of RAM. At this time this is overkill off course, even for gaming it's way to much. How ever, I was thinking of creating a ramdisk drive only for Media portal. So that I install the complete installation of Mediaportal on that Ramdisk drive. I know that the drive is empty as soon as I disable the machine, but a lot of software offers the option to backup the image of the drive and put it back everything you restart your pc. The question is if this will working fine, fast and if it is reliable. Last but not least; how many ram do I need for let we say, 1 hour of time shift buffer for an HD channel. Is 2GB for that enough? Or are those files way bigger.. In that case I could set the time shift buffer to the normal D drive wich has 2TB.I will install Windows an other programs to a RAID0 configuration of 2 Samsung 840 Pro's 128gb ssd's. That is already damn fast. Should a ramdisk still be a lot faster? And should I been able to see the difference?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="powermarcel10, post: 1100792, member: 108759"] Hi guys, a bit off topic, sorry for that, but maybe some of you can give me some answers as I have personally no experience with the use of a ramdisk drive.. I'm building a new high end htpc at this moment with 16GB of RAM. At this time this is overkill off course, even for gaming it's way to much. How ever, I was thinking of creating a ramdisk drive only for Media portal. So that I install the complete installation of Mediaportal on that Ramdisk drive. I know that the drive is empty as soon as I disable the machine, but a lot of software offers the option to backup the image of the drive and put it back everything you restart your pc. The question is if this will working fine, fast and if it is reliable. Last but not least; how many ram do I need for let we say, 1 hour of time shift buffer for an HD channel. Is 2GB for that enough? Or are those files way bigger.. In that case I could set the time shift buffer to the normal D drive wich has 2TB. I will install Windows an other programs to a RAID0 configuration of 2 Samsung 840 Pro's 128gb ssd's. That is already damn fast. Should a ramdisk still be a lot faster? And should I been able to see the difference? [/QUOTE]

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