This article may require to meet Wikipedia's. No has been specified. Please help if you can. (May 2011) () allows part of a 's RAM (memory) to be seen as if it were a disk drive, with volume name and, if supported by the operating system,. A RAM drive has much faster read and write access than a with rotating platters, and is, being destroyed with its contents when a computer is shut down or —volatility is an advantage if security requires sensitive data to not be stored permanently, and to prevent accumulation of obsolete temporary data, but disadvantageous where a drive is used for faster processing of needed data.

Data can be copied between conventional and a RAM drive to preserve it on power-down and load it on start-up. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Overview [ ] Features [ ] Features that vary from one package to another: • Some RAM drives automatically back up contents on normal on power-down, and load them when the computer is started.

If this functionality is not provided, contents can always be preserved by start-up and close-down, or manually if the operator remembers to do so. • Some software allows several RAM drives to be created; other programs support only one. • Some RAM drives when used with 32-bit (particularly 32-bit ) on allow memory above the 4 GB point in the, if present, to be used; this memory is and not normally accessible. Software using unmanaged memory can cause stability problems. • Some RAM drives are able to use any 'unmanaged' or 'invisible' RAM below 4 GB in the memory map (known as the ) i.e. RAM in the '. Note: Do not assume that RAM drives supporting 'AWE' (or ) memory above 4 GB will also support unmanaged PAE (or ) memory below 4 GB—most don't.

[ ] md - memory disk [ ] The md driver was written by Poul-Henning Kamp. This driver provides support for four kinds of memory backed virtual disks - malloc, preload, vnode, swap.

Disks may be created with the next command line tools: mdconfig and mdmfs. An example of how to use these programs follows. To create and mount memory disk with mdmfs: # mdmfs -F newimage -s 5m md0 /mnt To create and mount memory disk with mdconfig: # mdconfig -a -t swap -s 5m -u 0 # newfs -U md0 # mount /dev/md0 /mnt To destroy previously created disk: # umount /mnt # mdconfig -d -u 0 Linux [ ] shm [ ] Modern Linux systems come pre-installed with a user-accessible ramdisk mounted at /dev/shm. RapidDisk [ ] RapidDisk is a free and open source project containing a Linux kernel module and administration utility that functions similar to the Ramdiskadm of the. With the rxadm utility, the user is capable of dynamically attaching, removing, and resizing volumes and treat them like any other block device. And ramfs [ ] An example of how to use tmpfs and ramfs in a Linux environment is as follows: $ mkdir /var/ramdisk Once the mount point is identified the mount command can be used to mount a tmpfs and ramfs file system on top of that mount point: $ mount -t tmpfs none /var/ramdisk -o size=28m Now each time /var/ramdisk is accessed all reads and writes will be coming directly from memory. There are 2 differences between tmpfs and ramfs.

Primo Ramdisk Ultimate Edition v5.5.0 Final + Primo Ramdisk Server Edition v5.6.0 Final [2012,ML RUS] 4.8 MB SuperSpeed RamDisk Plus & Server v11.5.390 / Eng 37.5 MB.

1) the mounted space is theorically infinite, as ramfs will grow if needed, which can easily cause system lockup or crash for using up all available memory, or start heavy swapping to free up more memory for the ramfs. For this reason limiting the size of a ramfs area can be recommendable. 2) tmpfs is backed by the computer's swap space There are also many 'wrappers' for the RAM disks for Linux as Profile-sync-daemon (psd) and many others allowing users to utilize RAM disk for desktop application speedup moving intensive IO for caches into RAM. Microsoft Windows [ ] Non-proprietary [ ] ImDisk [ ] ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver is a disk image emulator created by Olof Lagerkvist. It is and, and is available in 32- and 64-bit variants. It is digitally signed, which makes it compatible with 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows without having to be run in Test mode.

The 64-bit version has no practical limit to the size of RAM disk that may be created. ImDisk Toolkit is a third-party, and that embeds the ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver and adds several features.

ERAM [ ] ERAM is an open source driver that supports making a drive that is up to 4 GB of the total amount of RAM, uses paged/non-paged memory and supports backing up the drive to an image. It works on Windows XP/NT/2000/7/10 (32 and 64-bit). Its driver and source code can be found by going to.

Proprietary [ ] AMD Radeon RAMDisk [ ] AMD Radeon RAMDisk is available in free versions (RAM drive up to 4 GB, or 6 GB with AMD memory), and commercial versions for drives up to 64 GB. The free version is 'advertising supported'. Creates only a single drive (does not support multiple RAM drives). Can be backed up periodically to hard drive, and automatically loaded when the computer is started. AMD Radeon RAMDisk is a rebranded version of Dataram RAMDisk. Dataram RAMDisk [ ] 's RAMDisk is freeware (up to 1 GB (reduced from 4 to 1GB - per October 2015 site visit) disk size) and was originally developed and marketed by John Lajoie through his private consulting company until 2001, when he sold his rights to, before being acquired by Dataram.

RAM disks larger than 4 GB require registration and a $18.99 single-user license. When purchasing physical RAM from Dataram, the RAMDisk license is provided free of charge. (Per DATARAM Government Sales on 4/25/2014, this is no longer the case.) Compatible with all 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2003. Dimmdrive RAMDisk [ ] A RAMdisk built specifically for gamers which features real-time file-synchronization, integration, 'USB3 Turbo Mode'.

The interface was designed to support both technical and non-technical game enthusiasts. Cost is $29 at Dimmdrive.com and $30 on Steam. Gavotte RamDisk [ ] Can use to create a virtual disk in memory normally inaccessible to 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows (both memory above the 4 GB point, and memory in the PCI hole).

There is also an open source plugin that replaces the RAM drive on with one based on Gavotte's rramdisk.sys. Gilisoft RAMDisk [ ] RAMDisk software for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/Windows 7 (x32 & x64)/Windows 10 with simple setup, permits mounting-and-unmounting of RAMDisk images to/from drive-image-files, and automated/convenient startup/shutdown features, $25 [ ]. Gizmo Central [ ] Gizmo Central is a program that can create and mount virtual disk files. It also has the ability to create a RAM disk. Passmark OSFMount [ ] Passmark's OSFMount supports the creation of RAM disks, and also allows you to mount local disk image files (bit-for-bit copies of a disk partition) in Windows with a drive letter. OSFMount is a free utility designed for use with PassMark OSForensics. QSOFT ( WinRamTech ) Ramdisk Enterprise [ ] A reliable RAM Disk compatible with all Windows Workstation and Server OS versions (32- and 64-bit) starting from Windows 2000.

Prices vary from $9 to $11. The content of the RAM Disk can be made 'persisted' i.e. Saved to an image file on the hard disk at regular times and/or at shutdown, and restored from the same image file at boot time. Because of the built-in disk format routines and the built-in load of the image file, this ramdisk drive is already fully accessible at the bootstage where Services and automatically started programs are launched. Certain concurrent running benchmarks of two ramdisks at the same time reveal that this ramdisk is almost the fastest version. A fresh full-featured evaluation version is provided every year around August and allows users to update their nearly expiring version. The development of this RAM Disk was ended on 2017, August 1.

SoftPerfect RAM Disk [ ] Available for Windows XP, 2003, 2008, Vista, 7, 8 and 10. Can only access memory available to Windows (i.e. The RAM disk is limited to the same ca. 3.25 GB as the Windows 32-bit system). To use physical memory above 4 GB you must use a 64-bit system.

Multiple RAM disks can be created, and these can be 'persisted' i.e. Saved to, and restored from, a hard disk image.

Note: Works well except for the special 'Harddisk emulation' part tends to crash or become unstable when used with the updated windows 10 anniversary edition. Home use licence is $29 (Before it was free for non-commercial use. Last free version was 3.4.8 ). A commercial use license starts at $49, and discounts are offered for quantities over 5. StarWind Software Virtual RAM Drive Emulator [ ] makes a freeware RAM disk software for mounting memory as actual drives within Windows. Both x86 and x64 versions exist. SuperSpeed RamDisk and RamDisk Plus [ ] and certified by Microsoft for 32 and 64-bit Windows XP, Vista, 7 & 8 (Win2000 is not supported).

The basic version of RamDisk supports only a single drive in memory whilst the Plus version supports the use RAM both below and above the 4 GB limit in 32-bit Windows as well as multiple drives and other features including the loading and saving from and to a physical image file as well as advanced automated backup features. Basic $60, Plus $80 (Server versions, for business use, a lot more, depending on system hardware). VSuite Ramdisk [ ] The Free Edition (limited to Windows 32-bit Win2000 / XP / 2003) is able to use 'invisible' RAM in the 3.25 to 4 GB 'gap' (if your motherboard has i946 or above chipset) & is also capable of 'saving to hard disk on power down' (so, in theory, allows you to use the RAM disk for Windows XP swap file and survive over a 'Hibernate').

Whilst the free edition allows multiple RAM disk drives to be set up, the total of all drives is limited to 4096 MB. The current version, VSuite Ramdisk II, has been rebranded as 'Primo Ramdisk', all versions of which are chargeable. Microsoft Source Code [ ] Ramdisk.sys sample driver for Windows 2000 [ ] offers a 'demonstration' RAM disk for as part of the. Limited to using the same physical RAM as the operating system.

It is available as free download with source code. RAMDisk Sample for Windows 7/8 [ ] Microsoft provides source code for a RAM disk driver for Windows 7 and 8 Native [ ] also has a rough analog to in the form of 'temporary files'. Files created with both FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY and FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE are held in memory and only written to disk if the system experiences high memory pressure. In this way they behave like tmpfs, except the files are written to the specified path during low memory situations, rather than to swap space. This technique is often used by servers along with TransmitFile to render content to a buffer before sending to the client. Solaris [ ] Ramdiskadm [ ] Ramdiskadm is a utility found in the to dynamically add and destroy ramdisk volumes of any user defined sizes.

An example of how to use ramdiskadm to add a new in a Solaris environment is as follows: $ ramdiskadm -a ramdisk1 100m To destroy the: $ ramdiskadm -d ramdisk1 All created RAM disks can be accessed from the /dev/ramdisk directory path and treated like any other block device; that is, accessed like a physical block device, labeled with a file system and mounted, to even used in a pool. DOS [ ] • includes SRDISK • 3.2 includes RAMDRIVE.SYS • 3.0 includes VDISK.SYS • included VDISK.SYS • included an automatic RAM disk as drive M: References [ ]. Retrieved 2013-11-17. – invalid link! Retrieved 2013-11-17.

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In Windows 7 and Windows Vista, enable Physical Address Extension (PAE), a memory management feature for allowing supported CPUs to enable NX bit (No-eXecute) and access a physical address space larger than 4 gigabytes. To enable PAE,, and run the following command: bcdedit /set pae ForceEnable Restart the computer to make the change effective. Verify the PAE status by running bdcedit, and the PAE should have the status of ForceEnable. After enabling PAE, execute the ram4g.reg registry registration file to tell Gavotte Ramdisk program to use RAM space beyond what Windows can use.The content of the REG file should look like this: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services RRamdisk Parameters] 'UsePAE'=dword:00000001 Installation and setup of RAM drive is pretty simple. Unpack the zip archive to a folder, and run ramdisk.exe. In Windows Vista and Windows 7, you need to right click on it and select “Run as Administrator”, if not you will get a Failed error message. Click on Install Ramdisk to install RRamdisk.sys driver.

Answer Yes or Allow if prompted with driver not signed with valid digital signature or can’t verify the publisher of this driver software warning message. Once RAMdisk is installed, all buttons that previously grayed out inactive are now activated. Now you can set the disk size in Bytes, configure the drive letter for the RAMdisk. You can also specify which media type is the drive – RAM Drive, Fixed Media or Removable Media (for simulating a floppy drive). The default choice, Fixed Media indicates that the RAMdisk is simulating a hard disk drive should work in most case.

Click on OK when done with configuration. Note that if you modify the settings of the RAMdisk during the time when system process is accessing the RAMdisk, you will require to reboot the system. Caveat is that, if you put IE Temporary Internet files into the RAMdisk, you will always need to restart computer even though you’re not running IE. A additional drive, the RAMdisk with default drive letter R: (assuming you’re not changing it) will be created, and immediately accessible for usage.

Other buttons in the RAMdisk GUI are pretty obvious in usage. Use “Remove RAMdisk” to uninstall RAMdisk, or more specifically RRamdisk.sys driver from the system. Save Image and Load Image allows users to save or open an image file for the whole contents of RAMdisk, useful if you want to store data in RAMdisk in unaltered state to be open up later. Ramdisk.exe accepts a image file as its argument so that the image file can be loaded automatically into the Ramdisk from command line. Potential usage include adding of “ramdisk imgfilename” to system boot up script such as autoexec.bat to load the data into memory disk. There are more customization and other potential usage for Gavotte Ramdisk not included in the GUI. However, you need to manually edit the registry.

These additional functions are maintained by addswap.exe and rdutil.exe which explained pretty well by the Readme, as shown below. In most case, you won’t need to come to this extent. • Parameters registry is HKLM System CurrentControlSet Services RRamdisk Parameters Why RRamdisk? Because XP SP1 contain a Ramdisk driver for XP Embeded. • Parameter: DiskSizeM, DiskSizeK Your desired disk size, the unit is M bytes or K bytes. The DiskSizeK has higher priority. • Parameter: MediaType The reported drive type: 1 — RAM Drive 2 — Fixed Media (default) 3 — Removable Media 4 — Floppy Diskette • Parameter: DriveLetter Name say it is, default is R: • Parameter: SectorsPerCluster Your desired cluster size, zero for driver pickup.

The ramdisk driver has an error. Setting the ramdisk media type to ramdisk is missing a component for proper initialization (the other file types work well). Another drive that has removable media is required to load up required drivers for this ramdisk – without the removable media the ramdisk is RAW. As soon as the removable media is inserted the Ramdisk is usable. This is most likely an oversight as that the writer having this dependent component loaded up in the background didn't realize it was dependent. Systems without this component do not work. There is a newer release as well which allows for >=4GB ramdisks (the error is still apparent within this new release) •.

Found the reason why it fails Windows XP Update: Installing the Ramdisk sample driver in a NTFS only machine might make it unusable. To resolve this problem make the following change: While you call the IoCreateDevice function (RamdiskAddDevice function in pnp.c), change the device type from FILE_DEVICE_VIRTUAL_DISK to FILE_DEVICE_DISK and recompile the driver. After you install the driver, restart the system in order to access the Ramdisk through Explorer. Someone please inform Gavotte and have a fix made.

Hello, Is it possible to run this util to put the whole swap file on the ramdrive? I now have Vista x64 with 4G ram and the 8G ram is on its way. When I look at the working of the current ram and vmm (swap) it only loads like 1.4G in ram and still continues to swap.

Now, I've read that it is no good to disable all swaps, but hey, I will have like 6.6G not used 😮 The perfect solution would be 4G swap file on ramdisk and 4G regular ram Can anyone tell me if this will actually work? When you set only one Swapfile windows asks for a reboot (?) and since we are trying to set it on a ramdrive the ramdrive will be gone when rebooting and only be back after rebooting when we recreate the swap again asking for a reboot (endless loop)? Philippe, Try Vista with no swap for a while and see how it works – don't believe everthing you read. I've been using XP 32 with 4 GB with no swap for some time, and I'm doing Java development with a couple Eclipses side by side, JBoss running etc. Vista's even better at memory management.

Even if you disable disk swapping that doesn't mean Windows will not create the swap, but it will be in memory – basicallt the swap on disk is an extension of the swap in memory it does already. Creating a memory disk to keep the disk swap will just add to the overhead – I bet the memory management in the ramdisk is less efficient than Vista's native swap mamangement techniques.

You can try stopping Vista SuperFetch service, that's the one that fills up memory with applications you run the most. Hi Philippe, Great stuff – I don't know if this apply to vista, but in XP I used to have some problems every now when I disable disk swap where it was complaining of low virtual memory but I believe that was due to free memory fragmentation while an application required a large amount of continuos RAM (my case was an Ecplise asking for 512 MB). Anyways, you can use ReadyBoost regardles of the amount of memor and whether you use a RamDisk or not, make sure you get a SD card or USB stick that was found to be work with ReadyBoost – you can find a list with them on the web. I had a problem in XP with the RamDisk where I change the radio set to RAM Drive instead of Fixed Disk and that was showing install errors – try with Fixed Disk as per screenshot. I use the RamDisk for a temporary disk drive – make sure you allocte enough (128-256 MB or more) some applications like large installers will complain with very dubious error messages when they don't have enough room to expand in TEMP dir. Dr Mark: Where do you get the latest version? I have downloaded this program from like 5 websites and all of them have the RRAMDISK.SYS with the following: File Version: 1.0.2003.1209 The first one I downloaded has modified date of which matches the fileversion information.

So even though I have files dated 2008, it seems they are just updated timestamps and not updated files. All 5 versions have identical number of files and identical file sizes.

This program works great under XP 32, just wish I could get a version that works with Vista x64. I have a machine with 12GB of RAM and I am hoping to make a 8GB RAMDRIVE. OK So I found the newer version as posted above, I was reading the comments backwards as I assumed the newest was on the bottom. That and Badongo was not working properly from my Vista machine, so I downloaded from XP Machine using FireFox. But now the problem is the GUI installer doesn't work on Vista x64. Still says Failed immediately on Install button and I already tried run as admin. Can I just cheat and export the proper Service entry from my XP Machine's registry and then change the driver name to be the x64 one and import into my Vista machine?

OK, here is the latest file and how to install; 1. Download the updated version at this link; The version posted here might also work, but anyway. Extract the archive to a directory.

Go to the Control Panel and click Add Hardware 3. Click Next and wait for the search to complete. Choose 'Yes, I have already connected the hardware' and click Next 5. Scroll to the very bottom and highlight 'Add a new hardware device' and click Next 6. Choose 'Install the hardware that I manually select from a list' and click Next 7. Wait for the search to complete and click Next 8. Highlight 'Show All Devices' and click Next (warning: this part may take a few minutes) 9.

Click Have Disk (Important! Be sure not to click on anything else or scroll through the lists before you click Have Disk. Doing so will screw up this process.) 10. Click Browse and locate the folder you saved the rramdisk.inf file in, select ramdisk.inf and click Open 11. Click OK, then Next and Next again. Click Continue Anyway if a warning pops up and then Finish 13.

Right click on the 'ram4g.reg' file in the extracted directory and 'merge'. Now when you launch the ramdisk.exe utility, you should be able to see the options properly enabled. Set the desired ramdisk size and click OK. It should be ready to use at the default drive R: Good luck! A small note. DON'T USE A DISK SIZE OTHER THAN THE ONES IN THE LIST! It's typeable, but if you enter, say, '1.25G', it'll promptly take your whole computer down with a blue screen.

Worse, if you aren't lucky, your computer won't even start back up – I'm guessing because those settings were saved and it tries again when you try booting! Other than that, well, it works fine – I just wish I could write in my own RAM disk size. It's happily granular up to the 1G point, but then they start jumping obscenely high like 2G and 4G, etc and there's no in between. I needed a 1.25GB disk because 1.0 was too small and I needed the extra 256mb to work in =( But thanks for the tool anyway! Hi there again. As posted earlier I have a very good working Vista 64 with 8G of RAM with paging file disabled, Quad Extreme 3Ghz.

All of the paging is disabled on all of my disks My machine keeps running very good. I can multitask between games and reget and music library and pokertracker. Still as pointed out in a lot of articles my system does not get beyond 3G of RAM usage when I check the logs. So I have like about, more or less, 3G of ram which I would like to assign to a 'removable' drive and put readyboost on it Problem: 1.

I cannot install the ramdrive, it just says failed. I tried with the admin privilige.

It seems that the ramdrive cannot be set to act like 'removable' media like USB stick. To speed up my system i'm looking for some High Perf USB memory. Preferably 8G. There may be hope!

When I rebooted the machine I got a Stop Error: 0xc0000428. This was caused by Forced Driver Signature Signing under Windows Vista (x86 and x64). Googling a few hours later and I find this web site: It's actually copied from here: which lists a utility that disables this signature check. The download URL of the utility is: removed Make sure you have your firewall and anti-virus updated for this site! Anyway, I installed this ReadyDriver Plus on the Vista x64 SP1 box and it worked! The only downside is I have to edit the registry to modify anything in Gavotte Ramdrive because the GUI doesn't work. Hi, i want to have a preformatet NTFS 64MB Ramdisk (maybe compressed).

I dit everythin like in the manual. Create 64mb dig Parameter: Image maintained by rdutil utlilty, mainly for preload NTFS image. Eg: 1) load ramdisk, don't write anything 2) format the ramdisk FORMAT /FS:NTFS /Q /C /V:RamDisk /A:512 R: 3) adjust logfile to minimum size CHKDSK /L:2048 R: 4) reset access rights CACLS R: /G: BUILTINAdminstrators:F 5) create necessary structure MKDIR R:TEMP 6) pack the disk image and save to registry rdutil R: registry and then this happens and i dont know why C:>rdutil R: registry locking volume R: done dismount volume R: done packing volume R: done disk size 65536K, packed size 78820 saving to registrytoo large, only 64K allowed. Goodness me, what a terrible article I'll assume the writer is not a native English speaker, so I won't go into the poor grammar However, some technical inaccuracies: 'Ramdisk has one obvious downside, that it’s volatile and not solid state.' Since when was RAM not solid state?

Which part of a RAM disk moves? RAM disks *are* solid state.

'ramdisk can be used to store swap space for virtual memory, '???? Swap space is there to handle the situation where you've run out of physical memory – why on earth would you reduce your available physical memory in order to create swap space in, erm, physical memory?? Regards, Someone off to read something else. Starting with the version in the ZIP file dated 2008-01-01 Gavotte allows accessing all 4 GB of RAM on a system with 32 bit Windows XP or Vista with 4GB of RAM installed. Here is the reference at the bottom of 'readme.txt': support >=4G ram under 32bit windows (UsePAE=1) It is not explained, however, how to enable this feature.

Before you install the ramdisk you need to click on the following file included in the ZIP package: ram4g.reg This will add a parameter to Windows registry that tells the driver to use PAE to push the ramdisk into non-addressable RAM. In short, 36 bit PAE extensions increase the available pool of memory in total.

If you want to know more about it then you can easily spend all night on Google studying hundreds of pages devoted to the topic. I had no problem to get Gavotte working on my 3 year old system (Windows XP SP3), and now have 2.7 – 2.9 GB of memory available, as seen on the screen that opens after you hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc: Others might not be so lucky, it all depends on BIOS, mother board chipset and CPU. Starting with the version in the ZIP file dated 2008-01-01 Gavotte allows accessing all 4 GB of RAM on a system with 32 bit Windows XP or Vista with 4GB of RAM installed. Here is the reference at the bottom of 'readme.txt': support >=4G ram under 32bit windows (UsePAE=1) It is not explained, however, how to enable this feature.

Before you install the ramdisk you need to click on the following file included in the ZIP package: ram4g.reg This will add a parameter to Windows registry that tells the driver to use PAE to push the ramdisk into non-addressable RAM. In short, 36 bit PAE extensions increase the available pool of memory. If you want to know more about it then you can easily spend all night on Google studying hundreds of pages devoted to the topic. I had no problem to get Gavotte working on my 3 year old system (Windows XP SP3), and now have 2.7 – 2. Network Controller Driver Windows 7 64 Bit Samsung. 9 GB of memory available, as seen on the screen that opens after you hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc: Others might not be so lucky, it all depends on BIOS, mother board chipset and CPU. First of all, to get this program work, you need to right click, and 'run as administrator'. It WILL create a RAMDISK.

However, if you want to use it to access more than the 3.5GB limitation of ram in Windows, this method will NOT work on Vista! On a 32 bit system, Windows Vista, I have 8GB of RAM. Ramdisk does not allocate a single byte from the unadressed RAM, only from the ram already allocated in Windows! In other words, you'd just be cutting away ram you already have, to create a disk in ram, that you might have done better without ramdisk. This program is only good to create a RAM DISK for those who already have sufficient ram available, not for those who try to address more ram out of a 3.5GB windows limitation! Gavotte Ramdisk has been working fine on my Vista32 4GB laptop, using the “non-system” or “unavailable” memory between 3 and 4 GB that Vista32 can’t use. Have had NO problems installing, setting up, removing and reinstalling RamDrives – in fact my only quibble is that read/write speeds aren’t very fast.

Having the pagefile and FF cache in otherwise unusable RAM is a great way to take advantage of memory that would otherwise do nothing at all. Once in a while I’ll copy a game into the Ramdisk and run it from there – while overall speed really doesn’t improve much, transitions and cutscenes are definitely faster and smoother. I really like this software – it’s so easy to setup and use and has never caused me any problems – highly recommend it to anyone who has memory above the ~3GB limit that Win 32bit OS can use – and most of the freeware Ramdisk software out there can’t make use of that area of memory anyway. • Pingback: () •. Gavotte_RAMDisk_1.0.4096.5_200811130 is working beautifully for me on Win7 32-bit. It allows me to use some of the upper memory (3 GB) of my 8GB RAM. IMHO, there is little reason to use a RAM disk on a 64-bit system.

First, if you have an SSD drive, your apps load really fast. If you have certain apps you use a lot and would like to pre-load, it might make more sense. For 90% of users, disk caching and/or SSD drives will make your programs load from RAM, making RAM disks unnecessary. 64-bit OSes can access all of the memory you are likely to have installed, so RAM disks won’t help you access it there.