I have 16 GB, and can spare 4GB for a ramdisk containing a pagefile. When you are over 16GB ram you can spare some to send all disk caches there. Great job on the benchmarks! HAL — The next time ramdisks are evaluated, it would be very helpful if you would include the maximum RAM Disk size allowed by each product. One of my regular tasks is to run scanpst.
A RAM disk is the perfect way to speed up this tedious task and it would be nice to know which products can do the job. For sure it depends on the system.
As a sysadmin, it obviously pays for me to install 16 or even 32GB of extra RAM in my machine if it can save me enough time over the life of the investment. By the way, great article. Kudos too, for keeping it updated. Any advice is appreciated! Buffalo Ramdisk is an interesting piece of software. It is a freeware, pretty fast and supports the OS invisible memory — interesting option for those who still use bit Windows.
It can be downloaded from: buffalo. I just wonder why the QSoft Ramdisk is not mentioned. According fiehnlab. Just out of curiosity , I did concurrently benchmark the QSoft and the Dataram ramdisks. The benchmarks were started at quasi the same time within the time to move and click the two start buttons. By this , the benchmarks run concurrently on the disks with the same size and the same filesystem.
I presume this the most accurate test one can perform. Me too. I installed that one shortly after I read that it was updated and is freeware. Fastest RAMdisk software of them all. And it supports command-line interface :D. What system did you use to test? My Maxxmem Preview scores are below, perhaps you could share yours to compare? Checking the RAMdisk showed that that the folder was now inaccessible and non delete-able and so I had to unmount the RAMdisk and re-mount it now empty to clear that problem.
Trying again gave the same result so I gave up on that software. Same procedure had already worked fine with RAMdisk Enterprise but that has a lot more options to set. My Maxxmem 1. This probably confirms the point about software being the limiting factor, as these scores are much higher which comes through in the sequential and k scores, but your 4k QD32 score is much faster.
By that I simply meant the RAMDisk software itself is obviously causing a bottleneck for me somewhere because as you say, my RAM scores are significantly better in Maxxmem.
As a result, you would expect ALL my scores to be better, but for some reason 4k write scores are way behind what yours are…. Ah yes, I see what you mean now. My ImDisk scores compare strangely to yours i. This issue with inaccessible folders has been fixed in the latest build 3. Thank you for your feedback. Skill RAM. I too am somewhat confused by this, changing the speeds of the RAM, increasing the speeds to stock, tightening the timings and increasing the NB frequancy improved the benchmark but not by that much.
At stock: Copy: Read: Write: Score: 6. I could get the timings to T on Mhz which had an increase but it was unstable. The highest I got it was Mhz on I did a pre and post CPU OC and that had some impact, Mhz more increased my scores slightly so I am wondering if it is the chip holding it back.
I wonder if these benchmarks are actually optimised for AMD systems. SoftPerfect have released their RAM disk as freeware and are claiming to have done major optimisations in their product.
I get:Seq: k: k: k qd i Excellent post! I heard you can have your ramdisk saved to a hdd as files or a disk image even iso before shutdown or simultaneously when idling. This could even prevent fragmentation buildup issues caused by small cookies and temp. I will update as soon as done…. Great test The only one that I know of,actually. Thank you. PS: classical question I guess but does a ram drive allow you to use the totality of the physical Ram available or only what Windows detects Typically,3.
Further I have testet the real life performance with several applications Firefox, Photoshop, Gimp, VLC and stopped the time of several processes. By default, the installer will place three icons on your desktop. As we mentioned earlier, RAM Disks are wiped out with a power loss or reboot, but you can configure one or more RAM Disks to be automatically created and mounted during the Windows boot process.
On the Advanced Tab, you can give the RAM Disk a drive name, change the cluster size most users will be fine leaving this at the default setting , and also set up image files to preserve your RAM Disk data.
How incredible, you ask? Keep reading for our benchmarks. We not only wanted to measure the performance of the RAM Disk, we also wanted to compare it to more common storage technologies. 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. Henk van Setten said on April 3, at am. Thank you. Maelish said on April 3, at pm. Clairvaux said on April 3, at pm.
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The software interface rests in the system tray and can be accessed from there. To stop the process, click the Red button on the interface. 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.
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