What is AMD RAM disk?

AMD Radeon RAMDisk is a free and commercial application for Windows to create a RAM disk — read memory drive — from system memory. Softperfect announced recently that its Ramdisk was no longer available for free. While it is still possible to use version 3.4.

What is RAM disk good for?

Also called a RAM drive, a RAM disk is a virtual storage drive that you can create in Windows with 3rd-party software. Basically, you’re telling your PC to reserve a portion of your RAM (eg, your DDR4 memory) as storage space so you can read/write to it like you would an HDD or SSD.

How do I create a RAM disk?

To create a RAM disk, you would install a third-party program that creates a virtual drive in Windows. This program would reserve a section of your RAM — so if you had 4 GB of files in your RAM disk, the disk would take up 4 GB of RAM. All the files on your disk would be stored in your RAM.

How do I create a RAMDisk?

How do I use RAM disk to speed up my computer?

  1. Install DataRAM RAMDisk. Just click next and “I agree” at the various prompts.
  2. Launch RamDisk Configuration Utility from the Start Menu.
  3. Set the RAMDisk Size and Type under the settings tab.
  4. Enable Load Disk Image at Startup under the Load and Save tab.
  5. Configure the Save Image Settings.
  6. Click Start RAMDisk.

How fast will DDR5 be?

DDR5 supports a speed of 51.2 GB/s per module and 2 memory channels per module. There is a general expectation that most use-cases that currently use DDR4 will eventually migrate to DDR5. In August 2021, Samsung revealed a 512 GB 7200 MHz RAM DIMM.

Does AMD support DDR5?

AMD also confirmed that AM5 socket motherboards will support PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 RAM. Important to note that, unlike Intel’s Alder Lake series, the Ryzen 7000 series will not support DDR4 RAM sticks, meaning you can only use newer DDR5 RAM on motherboards that support the new chips.

What is AMD Radeon RAMDisk?

AMD Radeon™ RAMDisk Make Loading Time a Memory. RAMDisk software creates a virtual drive using the available main memory (RAM) in your computer. The performance of a RAMDisk, in general, is orders of magnitude faster than other forms of storage media, such as an SSD (up to 100X) and hard drive (up to 200X).

What is the performance of RAMDisk?

The performance of a RAMDisk, in general, is orders of magnitude faster than other forms of storage media, such as an SSD (up to 100X) and hard drive (up to 200X). The freeware version of RAMDisk will utilize up to 4GB of your computers available RAM (up to 6GB if you have AMD Radeon™ memory installed).

What is the maximum RAM I can add to ramdisk?

For users that have more than 8GB of RAM in their computer and would like to utilize that memory for RAMDisk, license keys are available for purchase at various increments — up to 12GB, up to 24GB, up to 32GB and up to 64GB.

What happens when an unformatted disk is created in ramdisk?

When an unformatted disk is created RAMDisk opens the Windows Disk Management window and prompts the user to format the disk Process “trim” commands to reduce image file size when data is deleted from an NTFS RAMDisk (Windows 7 and later only)