RAM DISK software recommendations

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  1. Posts : 1
    Windows 69
       #11

    TairikuOkami said:
    I am using AMD Ramdisk (digitally signed), it has been bought by dataram, but they still use the same version from 2016, except they offer only 1GB for free, AMD gives 4GB, but it works nevertheless, even on Win 11.

    Download AMD Radeon RAMDisk 4.4.0 RC 36
    I've used the DataRAM ramdisk (which the same as the AMD Radeon Ramdisk) for a long time. It seems to work pretty well but I don't like the fact that it hasn't been updated in 5 years.

    I tried the SoftPerfect ramdisk and it was OK but when I boot up my computer it takes a while for it to start up. Which is weird.
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  2. Posts : 5,442
    Windows 11 Home
       #12

    MisterTheLoaf said:
    It seems to work pretty well but I don't like the fact that it hasn't been updated in 5 years.
    You are right, I do not like it either, it is also noticeably slower. I might buy Primo Pro after all, $50 though.
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  3. Posts : 43
    Microsoft Windows 10 Professional 22H2
    Thread Starter
       #13

    MisterTheLoaf said:
    I've used the DataRAM ramdisk (which the same as the AMD Radeon Ramdisk) for a long time. It seems to work pretty well but I don't like the fact that it hasn't been updated in 5 years.

    I tried the SoftPerfect ramdisk and it was OK but when I boot up my computer it takes a while for it to start up. Which is weird.
    SoftPerfect Ramdisk was the first product I tried and everything was OK until my machine BSOD'd while rebooting so off it went. I've been using ImDisk for several weeks and it's been problem-free.
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  4. Posts : 5,442
    Windows 11 Home
       #14

    I have just tried ImDisk, it works OK, but I did a little mistake, I chose to save image on D.
    Except I did not specify anything else, so it has removed the whole partition D, everything.
    So I have work for weekend cut out, redownload everything and 2 months game saves lost.

    EDIT: Posting ImDisk results for comparison.
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  5. Posts : 5
    Windows 10 LTSC
       #15

    One may try own "Winramtech" development. It is very stable on Windows 10 en Windows 11. The 256 MB evaluation 64 bit version is free.
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  6. Posts : 15,441
    Windows10
       #16

    hsehestedt said:
    Rob,

    I have not used any RAM Disk software extensively yet but here is what I have found:

    1) In my brief testing ImDisk worked well. So far, with my limited research, I think that may be the one I end up using.
    2) For those products that are for purchase, be careful - some of them base the price upon the size of the RAM Disk that you plan to create.

    In my case, I just built a system with 128GB RAM specifically with the intent of creating a 100GB RAM Drive to be used as temporary storage for a program that does some very disk intensive operations before creating its final output.

    Your bringing up this topic makes me want to pick up my pace of finding a solution, so I think that I'll start researching this further.

    If I find anything interesting, I'll post back here.

    In the meantime, hopefully some others here can share their experiences as well.



    A ramdrive is really only of any use if the software writes intermediate files directly to a drive rather than cacheing files to RAM first.


    Windows 10 memory management is far superior to much earlier versions of Windows.

    Personally, I have never detected any real benefit in using ramdisks.

    Have you ever tested if a ramdisk actually helps?

    Unless software is pretty old, I find it hard to believe with 128 GB you would get any significant benefit.
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  7. Posts : 4,173
    Windows 11 Pro, 22H2
       #17

    cereberus said:
    A ramdrive is really only of any use if the software writes intermediate files directly to a drive rather than cacheing files to RAM first.


    Windows 10 memory management is far superior to much earlier versions of Windows.

    Personally, I have never detected any real benefit in using ramdisks.

    Have you ever tested if a ramdisk actually helps?

    Unless software is pretty old, I find it hard to believe with 128 GB you would get any significant benefit.
    Since my previous posting on the topic was many months ago, I'll take this as an opportunity to provide an update...

    Since my last post I've discovered a new Ramdisk utility that I really like: Arsenal Image Mounter (Downloads | Arsenal Recon). It is part of a set of forensic tools but much of the Ramdisk capabilities are free. There are some nice features such as this Ramdisk looking like a REAL disk drive at a very low level so just about a disk tool can operate on it directly.

    While some may think of the use of a Ramdisk as being purely for speed, I use it mainly for other purposes. Specifically, I have a program that I have written that does a huge number of data writes, creating lots of temporary files and move chunks of data around. This program can run for many hours at a time, hammering the HDD or SSD much of the time. By creating a nice large Ramdrive (I use 90GB) I can save the wear and tear on my SSD. All the work is done on the Ramdrive and only the final result needs to be written back to my SSD.
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  8. Posts : 15,441
    Windows10
       #18

    hsehestedt said:
    Since my previous posting on the topic was many months ago, I'll take this as an opportunity to provide an update...

    Since my last post I've discovered a new Ramdisk utility that I really like: Arsenal Image Mounter (Downloads | Arsenal Recon). It is part of a set of forensic tools but much of the Ramdisk capabilities are free. There are some nice features such as this Ramdisk looking like a REAL disk drive at a very low level so just about a disk tool can operate on it directly.

    While some may think of the use of a Ramdisk as being purely for speed, I use it mainly for other purposes. Specifically, I have a program that I have written that does a huge number of data writes, creating lots of temporary files and move chunks of data around. This program can run for many hours at a time, hammering the HDD or SSD much of the time. By creating a nice large Ramdrive (I use 90GB) I can save the wear and tear on my SSD. All the work is done on the Ramdrive and only the final result needs to be written back to my SSD.
    Sure, ramdisk is only useful when the app directly writes to drive rather than directly using RAM as its working space.

    If you were to create (say) a huge excel sheet, on C drive with all RAM available, that would be more no more efficient than opening excel sheet in a ram drive.

    In your case, I can see a RAM drive could be more efficient assuming you do not overfill ramdrive to point where it has to page anyway.
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  9. Posts : 5,442
    Windows 11 Home
       #19

    Some apps allow to allocate the size dynamically. That is a crucial feature, because upon restart/shutdown, ramdisk gets saved to disk and restarting 5 times a day would cause 10GB ramdisk to write 50GB needlessly negating the benefit of limited writes. I am currently using ImDisk, ramdisk takes roughly 500MB, but when needed it can go up to 16GB, since I use it for downloads and temp.
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  10. Posts : 2,800
    Windows 7 Pro
       #20

    hsehestedt said:
    Since my previous posting on the topic was many months ago, I'll take this as an opportunity to provide an update...

    Since my last post I've discovered a new Ramdisk utility that I really like: Arsenal Image Mounter (Downloads | Arsenal Recon). It is part of a set of forensic tools but much of the Ramdisk capabilities are free. There are some nice features such as this Ramdisk looking like a REAL disk drive at a very low level so just about a disk tool can operate on it directly.

    While some may think of the use of a Ramdisk as being purely for speed, I use it mainly for other purposes. Specifically, I have a program that I have written that does a huge number of data writes, creating lots of temporary files and move chunks of data around. This program can run for many hours at a time, hammering the HDD or SSD much of the time. By creating a nice large Ramdrive (I use 90GB) I can save the wear and tear on my SSD. All the work is done on the Ramdrive and only the final result needs to be written back to my SSD.
    I agree, I use A RAM drive For the Trans-coding of my Media server and it saved gazillions of writes to my Raptor.
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