Windows 95 era? Maybe there are some specific situations where some very knowledgeable users could still take advantage of such software. I would love to learn more about that. This is far more problematic than the few milliseconds you might save here and there.
Generally, wholeheartedly agree. Most modern, mainstream software will make plentiful use of your ram is need be and its available which negates most RAM disk benefits. And data security outweighs any gains. I have however a niche use case where there are significant benefits. I work as a structural engineer designing buildings. I am currently working on a building where one floor will house vibration sensitive scientific equipment.
I am running a finite element analysis model to look at the impact on the dynamics of modifying a number elements and properties. Right now I have 18 models to run, each taking hours to run. Turns out the software is fairly niche and as a result its optimisations are far from ideal!
The whole thing is mostly single threaded, but can get around that by running multiple instances at once. Issue of data loss is also of low importance as I am copying files from network drive and back again when analysis is complete worst case is a loss of a couple of hours compute time.
Nice application! Great text Martin, thx. Personaly I use commercial RAM disks because of the lack od some important features in above free versions like using unmanaged memory for example. Flyer how those two compare to DimmDrive? Thanks a lot for this overview! Went to all this work to write this up and not a single benchmark, so sad. You need to use Crystal Disk Mark to get transfer speeds.
Hope you can update this article with benchmarks! Running an iK 4. WinRamTech provides now also a free but MB limited version. ImDisk Toolkit is one of these programs. Just look at the advanced tab. I suggest that you consider adding ERAM to this list. It depends; you may be able to move some game assets to the RAM disk to speed up the loading of certain elements but that depends on the game in question. Fast forward two years since this great article was published in , what are the available and recommended Free RAM drives options as well as their download links?
I read this aticle without being a RAM disk user. So I apologize if this reply will be useless, but few other people will see your post, given that this is many years old. What you describe sounds like a weird bug, especially given that nobody else appears to encouter it. My guess is the Installer is executed by a special system account. Which file system does your RAM disk use?
Which size does the RAM disk have? Junk disappears when you shut down the computer. Finally time has ran out, and sofperfect ramdisk is with a bug for windows 10 latest update and cannot pass the 4GB limit without updating to latest paid version. So you wont need to unmount it for gaming, as long it is not full and with a big chunk of your actual memory.
I am running 32GB sys and have a 28GB drive running on it, stable with only web browser open. Great for large file downloads as VR movies, etc for video editing and then saving down to an external HDD on system shut-down. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Please click on the following link to open the newsletter signup page: Ghacks Newsletter Sign up. Ghacks is a technology news blog that was founded in by Martin Brinkmann.
It has since then become one of the most popular tech news sites on the Internet with five authors and regular contributions from freelance writers. Search for:. Martin Brinkmann. This guide provides you with an overview of the best free RAM Disk programs for devices running Microsoft's Windows operating system.
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Bitdefender Free will be retired on December 31, Comments RossN said on April 3, at am. Anonymous said on April 3, at am. Omar said on April 3, at am. As soon as you stop the process, all data will be lost. Right click on the icon to access configuration window.
Here you can set auto start parameters, access advanced settings, and choose to quit the application. The advanced setting options let you choose to activate confirmation When turning off, When quitting, and When shutting down. The software lets you create RAMDisk in easy and simple steps.
A list of mounted virtual drives are displayed on the main UI. There is also an option to mount saved RAMDisk image stored on your computer. One of the tools let you create and mount RAMDisk. Gavotte Ramdisk is a simple RAMdisk creator software with few options to setup. You can select the size from 16MB to 3GB. Click on Install Ramdisk to start it. These is also an option to save a Ramdisk configuration and Load it when you want. For higher RAMDisk capacity, you will have to upgrade to paid versions.
January 10, December 29, Managing Mailbox and Folder Permissions in Exchange and December 27, Adrian August 15, - am Great tutorial. I was able to create my ram disk. Matteo September 2, - pm Adrian, maybe running the power shell script at startup and setting the app service with automatic delayed start. Guillermo January 7, - pm Excellent! Leave a Comment Cancel Reply Notify me of followup comments via e-mail.
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