IBM Rational Application Developer can be real hard on the disk, especially when debugging in the test environment for Websphere 6. In lieu of convincing my employer that every developer should get a speedy SSD or RAM-based disk to minimize wait times between WAS6 restarts, I have been investigating the available options and have been looking at software based RAMDisks. These could even be faster than most SSD disks, in theory.
I was pleasantly surprised to find these options below are available for Windows 7:
- This one is payware, but the free version allows a RAMDisk of up to 4g in size, which is enough for me. http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk
- This one is free, haven't tried it yet. http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/#ImDisk
- This one looks promising, especially for its ability to transparently write ram disk changes to a backing file on a physical disk. http://www.superspeed.com/desktop/ramdisk.php
For now, I need to test these out and see if there really is a benefit for some of the IBM RAD slowness I see on a daily basis. I will post my findings here at a later date.
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