Need info on RAM Disk, USB 2.0 keychain Disk

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Viba Fima

Hello,
Our web server saves some intermediate information from users' form
submissions on disk files. We would like to improve the disk I/O performance
by switching to a faster disk. We heard about RAM disk and also USB 2.0
keychain disk. Our need is only about 1GB. Does anybody have experience or
recommendation using those kinds of disks to replace the normal disk for web
access through active server pages (ASP)?
Thanks,
Krup Nugent
 
Hello,
Our web server saves some intermediate information from users' form
submissions on disk files. We would like to improve the disk I/O
performance by switching to a faster disk. We heard about RAM disk and
also USB 2.0 keychain disk. Our need is only about 1GB. Does anybody
have experience or recommendation using those kinds of disks to
replace the normal disk for web access through active server pages
(ASP)? Thanks,
Krup Nugent
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You will not be able to use a USB keychain disk for a couple of reasons.
First they are slow and second the memory cards are going to be rated
for only a few 100,000 writes. You will very quickly have that many. You
can use a RAM disk if you have enough free memory. Windows 2000 doesn't
include one and the only one we have is designed for testing only.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;257405

You can test with this and see if a ram disk works for you. Then you
probably want to find a different one.


Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team
 
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