What's the best ramdisk for Windows?

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Published on 2009-09-02T16:01:18Z Indexed on 2010/04/07 20:33 UTC
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ramdisk

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windows-xp

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windows-vista

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32-bit

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64-bit

Just Googling for "windows ramdisk" returns a lot of stuff; some free, some paid. Can someone recommend a good one? (I'm willing to pay, but only if it's really worth paying for.)

Here's what I'm looking for:

Works on XP and Vista
Supports 64 bit and 32 bit
I'd like it to support more than 2GB of space (is that even possible on a 32 bit operating system?)
I think I want something that can avoid swapping the ramdisk pages. (Though swapping would give me more free space; maybe I'll want to swap the ramdisk pages eventually? Is this configurable?)

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