Comments on: 12 RAM Disk Software Benchmarked for Fastest Read and Write Speed

By: Zibri (http://www.zibri.org)

Zibri (http://www.zibri.org) — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:31:00 +0000

With imdisk on my system (windows 7 64 with 12 GB of DDR3 1600 8-8-8-24 CR1 ram and a core i7 950 at 4.2 ghz)

I get:Seq: 5830 7990512k: 5756 74744k: 1004 8644k qd32: 2020 1537
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By: Valdemar Peña

Valdemar Peña — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:47:24 +0000

Excellent post! i keep it with DATARAM RAMdisk, which have the fastest read/write operations reported.

Thanks Ray.

oh, and its free up to 4 Geebees..

By: dushko

dushko — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:47:57 +0000

louis!
simple:YES
sophisticated:if your bios sees 4 gigs and your 32bit OS those 3.2-3.5(???)gigs you can use the rest for ramdisk. XP creates a pagefile even if not needed, so my estimate is: use 1GB for RamDisk and put page and temp+temporary internet there. I heard you can have your ramdisk saved to a hdd as files or a disk image(even iso) before shutdown or simultaneously when idling. This could even prevent fragmentation buildup issues caused by small cookies and temp.inet.files! and still spare your data usage when mobile or speeding up browser startup when having a bunch of tabs open.
I’m even considering somehow setting ramdisk as the default pagefile drive, but setting XP not to use one – XP will still use one, but not the equivalent amount of physical RAM, just around 0.3-0.5 GB, but it’s just guesswork yet, cause I didn’t really bother trying it out yet.
I will update as soon as done….

By: Louis

Louis — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:55:07 +0000

Great test (The only one that I know of,actually).
But question:why is everyone focusing on the Dataram solution when it’s only occupies the… sixth position in the benchmark ?
No feedback on the Qsoft RAMDrive Enterprise by any chance ?
Thank you.

PS:
classical question I guess but does a ram drive allow you to use the totality of the physical Ram available or only what Windows detects (Typically,3.2 GB on a 32 bits system when 4 GB are truly installed) ?

By: Konrad

Konrad — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:59:55 +0000

I Have tested Dataram RAMdisk with a 1GB Ramdisk. My result also much lower (300MB/s). Further I have testet the real life performance with several applications (Firefox, Photoshop, Gimp, VLC) and stopped the time of several processes. Result: the Ramdisk is not faster than my hard disk (Seagate, 60MB/s), often even slower.

I didn’t test the other Ramdisk programs, but Dataram is not worth the time to install…

By: Fortigurn

Fortigurn — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 04:08:44 +0000

I’m impressed by those scores. My CrystalMark score using a 5GB ramdrive created with DataRAM’s product was much lower, only 90MB/s. Could it be that I need to tweak the setting somehow?

By: David

David — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:38:15 +0000

Raymond,

Have you tried out SuperSpeed’s RamDisk (or RamDiskPlus) software? I was wondering how it compared to the other 12 versions you tested. It is not shareware or freeware, but I am still old school and believe you get what you pay for. The SuperSpeed version supports up to 512 GB of RAM disk, which is the sort of capability I need. Most of the others I’ve looked at only support “small” RamDisks. THANKS!