Despite my years of being a "power" mac user, I have never really played around with ram disks. I guess I've been fortunate enough to always have been able to buy fast machines and lots of RAM whenever I needed a speed boost, so it's just never come up!
But now I've decided to give ram disks a try, just to satisfy my curiosity :) I have a G4 Cube running OS 9.2.1 with 1.5 GB RAM, and a dual-USB iBook 500 with 576 MB RAM running OS X 10.1.1. OS X performance on my iBook is smooth and fast enough, and I am really digging Office X - E'rage X actually seems to run much faster than E'rage 2001 does on my Cube, despite having 50 MB of RAM allocated to it and archiving my monstrous mail files weekly to keep my database down below 50 MB. I also do regular database rebuilds for good measure. I'm becoming spoiled by the speed of E'rage on my iBook, but I use my Cube at home 90% of the time, and I'd like to find a way to speed it up. My Cube system is stable, solid as a rock. Everything behaves well and crashes are very few and very far between, but I've noticed that E'rage has become very sluggish - especially when it comes to HTML email, which I get all too often. I'm wondering if placing my MS User Data Folder in a RAM disk (using ramBunctious) would speed it up a tad? Or running the entire app of a ram disk? I read everywhere of people using ram disks for their browser cache and Photoshop scratch disks, but I haven't heard about other applications that might make sense for me. Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions or advise? I'm on digest, so a CC to my email address is appreciated, but not required. Thanks, Laurie -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
