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But some of the newer features of Win8 DISM, such as the ability to fully remove a package from the source and yet still have it able to be re-added post install, unfortunately do not work in Win7 AFAIK.  So I guess testing would be needed to make sure that using Win8 DISM to make a Win7 build do not create any unforeseen consequences.  Worst case, I guess it could be added so that Win8 DISM is used for Win8 builds and Win7 DISM is used for Win7 builds?

 

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No personal attack, but why are people asking this question ?

 

A average HDD read/writes about 100 MB/s.

A good SSD read/writes about 500 MB/s.

 

...and no one asks, if a SSD is faster than a HDD, but...

 

A average DDR3 (1600MHz) with 9-9-9-27 timings read/writes about 15000 MB/s

 

So why are there so many users asking, if a RAMDRIVE is faster than a SSD, or if it can make any sense using it ? :g:

 

Because just how many programs can actually use 20GB/s of a RAM Drive?  Nothing that WinToolkit does can even begin to approach those kind of speeds.  Most WinToolkit's operations are running at speeds less than 20MB/s.  The only operations that actually use a relatively high amount of bandwidth is the ISO creation, image building, mounting and saving tasks.  I'm doing an integration right now, and my Disk utilization peaks at 26%.  What worthwhile benefit would I get from going out, and Buying 32GB of RAM, and making a 24GB RAMDisk, and telling the Toolkit to use it?

 

It goes to show that a RAMDrive is not some kind of silver bullet that's suddenly going to make the Toolkit make Windows images in a few minutes instead of an hour.

 

The single biggest performance factor in relation to creating a Windows Image is actually disk access time, and random access time, not continuous disk bandwidth.

 

To put this in plain language, the biggest performance improvement to WinToolkit is to use a good SSD.  Yes you will get more performance from a VERY large (24GB) RAMDisk, but we are talking less than a 10% improvement for a fast computer with a good SSD.

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