Small Files : 2,527 mix of low, medium and high-resolution photos (2,000,704,583 bytes)Īlthough both sets are 4 GB in size, we needed another 2 GB of space as work space, so we created a 6 GB RAM disk.

Large Files : 5 high-resolution videos (2,002,511,061 bytes).

in the 256 GB Kingston UHS-I SDXC Card review) : Take, for example, the two sets of test files we use in our copy and write tests ( e.g. Note that if you intend to use the RAM disk to run copy and write benchmark tests, you must make sure it is large enough to hold the files you are using for the tests. In this guide, we will be using the SoftPerfect RAM Disk because it's not only very user-friendly, it is also free for non-commercial use. However, there are several free RAM disk software like ImDisk which may not look as polished but works just as well. There are many paid solutions, from Dataram's RAMDisk ( which includes the AMD Radeon RAMDisk) to SoftPerfect's RAM Disk.

You will need a 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows, to allow you to make use of more than 4 GB of memory. Instead, they reserve part of the system RAM for use as graphics memory. This is particularly important in computers that use integrated or processor graphics because they do not have their own dedicated memory. RAM is cheap and you should have no problem upgrading to 12 GB, 16 GB of RAM or even 32 GB of RAM. If you have less than 6 GB of RAM, we recommend you upgrade to 8 GB or more.

If they have to use a paging file because there's not enough memory, that would defeat the purpose of having a RAM disk. This ensures that your applications will have sufficient memory to use.

If you have decided that a RAM disk is a good idea for your system, this is what you need :Īlthough there are no hard and fast rules and you can create a RAM disk with any amount of memory, we do not recommend that you create one unless you have at least 6 GB of RAM.

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