If you are having a large enough RAM drive in your system then it has got an extra advantage for you. These RAM drives can be utilized to get the most out of an application that reads and writes a lot. A kernel mode driver is used with the memory to create a RAM drive that will work a lot faster than the normal storage space. The commonly used hard drives in all the computers can at the most read and write at the rate of 100 MB/sec. The speed of a RAM drive depends on the memory and chipset of a system and that is why on high end systems it may be faster.
I am going to show you that exactly how you can create a RAM drive and run your applications faster. I assume that you are having a large enough RAM that is about 4 GB or more. I will be using a free utility called “Dataram RAMDisk”.
Download Link: Dataram RAMDisk
1.Download and install RAMDisk from the above given link and open the containing folder.
2.Now in the folder click and open the file that is named RAMDisk Configuration Utility.
3.Now click on the settings tab and enter the disk size and partition type according to your needs.
Click on Start the RAM drive and it is ready to be used.
The only disadvantage of a RAM drive that bothers the most is that it cannot store any data. If you switch off the power the data is gone but this utility provides you an option to save the data even when the power is switched off and also to restore it whenever the need arises.
To use this feature follow the given below steps:
1.Click on the Open and Save tab in RAMDisk Configuration Utility.Now to save the data check on the “Load Disk Image at Startup” and “Save Disk Image on Shutdown” to enable the save and restore feature.
Now you can try and run any type of heavy application and experience them running faster.
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