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Product Description:
Esperance DV is a module for System Preferences making a RamDisk. The object is there to place the temporary files such as the mask of a navigator, the Builds files & Intermediates xCode's, etc... A RamDisk is the use of a part of read-write memory (RAM) as a hard disk.
What's new in this version:
- Intel compatibility, universal binary
- Italian translation.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
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Download Esperance DV Version 2.3 (File Size: 217k)
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Feedback Summary:
| Version 2.3: | |||||
| Overall Rating: |   (1.0) |
Features: | (4.0) |
Support: | (3.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (3.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (2.0) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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Caused major problems - Version: 2.3, 2/14/2006 11:47AM PST
Aardy
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- Caused major problems (3 replies)
Works great, read performance very good but could be better - Version: 2.0, 12/18/2004 06:02PM PST
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Dan Buettner
This is an easy-to-use RAM disk creator that seems to offer higher performance than some of the other alternatives. It has the option to re-mount the RAM disk on login, which is great, and also shows up in /Volumes, which is also great.
Write performance is stunning, as high as 500 MB/sec on a dual-2GHz G5. Read performance is also much faster than your standard disk, at around 240 MB/sec on the same G5. Seems like it could possibly be faster though - why so much slower than write speed?
The documentation is a little thin - in fact there isn't much at all.
Having an option to periodically save the RAM disk contents would be nice as well. User-definable time or timeframe (i.e. every 60 minutes, or at 4 AM every day, etc) would be helpful.
Write performance is stunning, as high as 500 MB/sec on a dual-2GHz G5. Read performance is also much faster than your standard disk, at around 240 MB/sec on the same G5. Seems like it could possibly be faster though - why so much slower than write speed?
The documentation is a little thin - in fact there isn't much at all.
Having an option to periodically save the RAM disk contents would be nice as well. User-definable time or timeframe (i.e. every 60 minutes, or at 4 AM every day, etc) would be helpful.
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The uninstall routine is flawed. It removed ALL my local (not global) preference panes - in fact it just deletes the entire folder. I had to reinstall 10 pref panes back to the home directory (~/library/Preference Panes). I have notified the developer of this fault (no reply as yet, but then it's been less than 24 hours!)
In theory the whole Ram Disk thing is a good idea; I just wished it worked.
PowerBook G4/867 15.2" Ti, 1 GB RAM, 40 GB HD (5+ GB free), OS X 10.4.3, QuickTime 7.0.4