RAM Disk for Windows

What is RAM Disk for Windows?

Increase computer performance and SSD life

SoftPerfect RAM Disk is a high-performance RAM disk application that allows you to have a disk on your computer fully stored in your memory. Because memory is much faster than physical hard drives, storing temporary data on a fast disk in memory provides superior performance. Whatever your work, read on to find out what a RAM disk can offer you.

SoftPerfect RAM Disk creates a virtual disk residing in the RAM of the computer accessible in Windows Explorer and other applications, allowing you to store any temporary information on this disk. In addition, Windows can be configured to use the RAM disk for temporary files so that the system and most other applications use the fast disk in memory for their temporary data. Because Windows and other third-party applications often create a large number of temporary files for a short period of time, using a RAM disk will extend the life of your hard drive, preventing it from over-reading and harding. This is particularly valuable for solid state drives (SSD), which have a limited number of writes.

Modern computers are equipped with at least 4 GB of RAM, and most of the time there is too much unused memory that could be used as a high-performance alternative to slower HDD storage. This product allows you to create any number of virtual RAM disks limited only by available memory. You can also work with disk images and RAM disks associated with files on disk to preserve your data between sessions.

Although regular users benefit from transferring web browser caches and temporary Windows files to a RAM disk, IT professionals may find even more advantages. For example, programmers can speed up the development process by redirecting the output of the intermediate compiler to a RAM disk, database administrators can improve performance by using a RAM drive for things like tempdb, and so on.

Main features

• Any number of RAM disks. In practice, up to 26 discs due to the number of drive letters available.
• Any RAM disk size on 64-bit systems. Up to approximately 3.5 GB on 32-bit systems.
• Persistent RAM disks with associated images on disk.
• Volatile RAM disks whose contents disappear at shutdown.
• Built-in disk image manipulation tools.

Five good reasons to use the RAM disk

1.     Higher computer performance. As long as you have a sufficient amount of RAM, using a fast memory disk for temporary data will increase computer performance.

2.     Reduced physical disc wear. Because files are temporarily not written to the hard drive, there will be fewer read/write cycles, which is especially important for extending the life of solid state drives (SSD) normally installed on laptops.

3.     Less junk on the hard drive. Many software applications create temporary files that remain undeleted, although they are no longer needed. The contents of the RAM disks are erased each time the computer restarts or shuts down.

4.     Reduced fragmentation of the file system. The file system on your HDD will be much less fragmented, as temporary files will never be written to the hard drive.

5.     Less noise and heat from the hard drive because the system will use the hard drive with less intensity.

System requirements:

CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor

RAM: 2 GB

HDD / SSD: 50 GB of free space on the main drive

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

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