ROG Ramdisk settings

[damiak]

Hello

I am member of board Maximus hero 6.
I using ROG Ramdisk.
The program does not have the following basic options:
1. select "save disk image at shutdown"
2. select Patch image file!

I have a ssd drive and I do not want every time shutdown windows write from ramdisk to my ssd.

Please help how to change the path.

Thanks
Damian Kuziora

[tocguy]

I'll second that request. How can I automatically restart RamDisk clean following each boot? Just using it for temp/cache garbage.

[karl_azytzeen]

You cant with Rog ramdisk.

I want the same and the free version of dataram ramdisk works like charm (allows just upt to 4Gb, if more are required you should bought or crack it)

Im using it as main temp folder, soy i redirected system variables.

The issue is that some files are required to be there on boot for some programs. So i installed them and i make a drive image(it requires 4Gb but being ntfs compressed the real size is the size of the files 13mb)

I had setted it up to load that image on boot always so everytghing works fine.

Also on everyboot i removed the backup of disk option to not change it with old temp files, so just load the 13mb image wich is done withount any lag.

Shutdown also doesent shows any lag.

PS: also y had complemented this with some supercache5 ramdisks for the most used drives.

[COLDSTATIC]

I looked into something along these lines a while back. I tried to figure out where the trigger was for the backup program to run. From my research i was able to gather that on install it placed a bunch of functions in the registry under different device id names.

To track it fully someone would need to install it clean while having an install tracking program running. Those programs are used to deploy software to mass computers when the software is not written for it. Tons of freeware options i just don't have time to find out.

When the backup trigger is found you can delete or rename it to stop it from the auto backup. As for the blank startup just have the image under the installed directory be a blank image. C:\Program Files (x86)\ASUS\ROG RAMDisk yes i realize it takes up space no matter the size.

Personally i would really like to shut down the auto backup. I use an ssd and every write counts even though there are millions of them. But i use a 10gb ramdisk so at minimum every day i am writing 10gb. Most hard drive mfg's and hardware reviewers consider this heavy heavy usage. Even though only something minor has changed the backup is still completely written.

I wonder how asus is going to react when they realize they have been killing people's ssd's?

[jab383]

One way to avoid SSD degradation is to install ROG RAMDisk on HDD. It's not in "Program Files" but who cares. It will cost a little time for each backup and restore because HDD runs slower than SSD.

I only activate the RAMDisk when I'm running a program I want to speed up, eg. a benchmark or for large files in Adobe CS6. That's more manual operation, but cuts the SSD wear.

Jeff