These traits make RAM Disks ideal for a lot of purposes.
With it come notable differences born out of that: a RAM Disk is faster than hard drives, and the storage space that it offers is only available during the session unless the software supports the saving and loading of disk images. The core difference is that it is a virtual hard drive that uses RAM for storage.
I have zero problems while working on a laptop though (except some because of bugged OS).The following guide provides you with an overview of the best free RAM Disk programs for devices running Microsoft's Windows operating system.Ī RAM Disk, also called RAM Drive or RAMDisk, works in many regards just like a hard drive. I am not sure if it is because of bugged OS or because of paging file being on ramdrive. It happens when it is almost turned off so nothing bad happens. Sometimes I get blue screens while shutting computer off. And it has bad blocks (most of them I locked on the hidden partition). I must say that I have old bugged 250GB HDD as the only drive in my laptop now. So I am just cautious just in case OS will be frustrated that on the next boot it will have an erased page file. I also set OS to clear pagefile before shutdown because anyway ramdrive will be cleared on the next boot. So yeah, I create 512MB page file on RAMdisk. You may be shocked but even if you have 32GB some programs (games and maybe others) still use 256-512MB of paging file if it exists. The only reason why pagefile usualy is disabled on SSD is writes that it produces to the SSD's cells. No, seriously - PAGEFILE! I am not joking. Just pay attention that nowadays SSDs can handle writes much better than previous and will live for 10 years or so if you will not use it in a very hard way.
It will save write to the SSD and make it install faster. When you install programs, or do anything at all which goes to TEMP folder you may set it to use RAMdisk. English I guess not But as it has almost no GUI you can try to use russian. I use QSOFT Enterprise which is MUCH faster. It is good because of good GUI where you can start learning about ramdisk and using save/load image. It is NOT fast though and has bad 4K reads and writes. You can copy the *.img file for safe keeping - and also have different files/configurations set up to load if you like.Ĭlick to expand.Somebody was calling me?Īt first I played with RAMDisk for some time and became very skilled with it.Īs someone said above DATARAM Ramdisk is OK. It was also handy as a way to have that data (like my FF settings) backed up.
I would definitely recommend a RamDisk with a standard HDD, though. My mSATA is setup with a cache partition, a hibernation partition and there's plenty of room left for a pagefile, temp directory and the other overactive data files/directories. But I'm not using it anymore because the speed improvement isn't really that notable with ssd's and there is a bit of a hit during shutdown when it writes the data back to disk. I figured it would deal with alot of the random writes and save wear a bit on my ssd drive. I had it set up with my FF, Chrome and Outlook folders as well as my temp directory before I had an mSATA on top of a main SSD drive. It can load a designated *.img file at startup and save it on shutdown so the ram disk doesn't disappear when you shut down. DataRam Ramdisk software is free for a 4GB or less ramdisk and the latest version works really well.