Many software applications create temporary files that remain undeleted although no longer needed. Because temporarily files are not written to the hard disk, there will be fewer read/write cycles, which is especially important for prolonging the life of Solid State Drives (SSD) commonly installed in laptops. Reduced wear-and-tear of the physical disk. Provided you have a sufficient amount of RAM, using a fast in-memory disk for temporary data will boost the computer performance. Volatile RAM disks whose content disappears on shutdown.įive very good reasons to use the RAM Disk: Persistent RAM disks with an associated on-disk image. Up to approximately 3.5 GB on 32-bit systems. In practice, up to 26 disks due to the number of drive letters available.Īny RAM disk size on 64-bit systems. For example, programmers can speed-up the development process by redirecting intermediate compiler output to a RAM disk, database administrators can improve performance by using a RAM drive for things like tempdb, and so on.Īny number of RAM disks. While regular users will benefit from moving web-browser caches and Windows temporary files to a RAM disk, IT professionals may find even more advantages. You can also work with on-disk images and RAM disks associated with an on-disk file, that ensures your data is preserved between sessions. This product lets you create any number of virtual RAM disks limited only by the memory available. Modern computers are equipped with at least 4 GB of RAM, and most of the time there is a lot of unused memory that could be used as a high-performance alternative to the slower HDD storage.

As Windows and other third-party applications often create a large number of temporary files for a short time only, using a RAM disk will extend your hard disk’s life by sparing it from excessive reading and writing. Furthermore, Windows can be configured to use the RAM disk for temporary files, so that the system and most applications would use the fast in-memory disk for their temporary data.

SoftPerfect RAM Disk creates a virtual disk residing in the computer RAM accessible in Windows Explorer and other applications, allowing you to store any temporary information on this disk.

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