![]() It can generate a disk automatically, load a disk from an existing image, or load a disk from a settings file. I've found its automatic loading at boot and auto-saving when restarting to be particularly convenient and surprisingly fast, I don't have to think about it and can treat it like any other drive. It supports all the features you've listed in your original post. That said I've been using for testing purposes. Things like Windows Defender or A/Vs are going to play havoc with the performance benefits of RAMdrives unless you disable or possibly exclude them, or are transferring large media files that are excluded from scanning. I'm not convinced a RAMdrive is better than say, a Samsung 960 Pro. For reference (and making an SSD look crazy slow).ĢTB RAID1 (Intel Software RAID), Toshiba 2TB 7.2k disks:ĤGB SoftPerfect RAMDisk (using the "slower" compatible mode): But, I never had stability problems or crashes.īut they sure are fun to look at the numbers (this is from Win8.1, and I've since replaced by RAID1 setup with different software and drives, and also have a different SSD). When I finally updated to Win10 from 8.1, I didn't bother with the RAMdisk, as I wasn't seeing any huge difference in usable speed, but I had also acquired a faster SSD than before. I set the ramdisk to be my temp folder and browser cache folders. Also, unlike a lot of other ramdisk products out there, I don't think there's a limit on size for free (I only have 32GB RAM, not 192!), but I was running an 8GB drive no problem. It's a little clunky to setup and configure, and I did persistent storage (so it had to read/write at each boot/restart), but it was stable, crazy fast, and worked fine on Win7, Win8.1, and Win10. I had good luck with SoftPerfect's RAMDisk. I was running 3.x something, if I remember. Older versions were free (for personal use) and worked well, so see if you can find them. Any input is appreciated, thanks in advance!Įdit: Well, just looked carefully at the link I provided, and they're now on version 4, which is apparently not free. Ideally, I'd want the software to be able to write out its image to disk on demand or on a schedule, instead of just doing it when I'm shutting the RAMdrive down, but I don't know if any RAMdrive software has that option. I did order a Samsung 850 EVO 1TB to use as the main drive for the system, so I'm thinking I'll use my old 160GB Intel SSD as the storage for the RAMdrive, since the system is going to be on most of the time, but I'd prefer not use use any of the main SSD for storing the RAMdrive's image file. ![]() I'll be running Windows 10 Pro on it (64-bit, of course), and I wanted to ask: does anyone have a recommendation for good RAMdrive software that supports Windows 10 and can create large drives? I do see a few options around, but ideally it would be nice to have some feedback from people who might have used them. I made what could be considered a rash eBay purchase the other day of a Dell Precision T7500 with dual Xeon X5690 CPUs and 192GB of memory, the idea being that not only is it an improvement over my current rig (Xeon W3680 with 24GB), but it has such an obnoxious amount of RAM that I can create a 128GB RAMdrive in which I can install whatever game I want to play and not have to wait very long for anything.
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