300 600 2500 megabytes per second solid state
drives or ssds are fantastic and have brought us super quick storage
performance with lower power consumption and without the fragile moving parts of
mechanical hard drives but what if you want to go even faster well the absolute
fastest storage solution you can have in a desktop rig anyway is a RAM Drive
which is just what it sounds like setting aside a certain amount of RAM to
use as well a really really fast drive
so why is RAM good for this then you see
part of the reason we use RAM as the working memory for whatever the computer
is doing at a given time instead of using a hard drive or even a regular SSD
for that is because RAM is extremely
fast this allows the computer to read and write the data that it needs to act
upon without having to wait around and this Paradigm has existed since long
before long-term Solid State Storage became mainstream in fact the first RAM
Drive software came about all the way back in
1980 so just how fast are we talking about then well depending on your
configuration you can get sequential read and write speeds in the
neighborhood of 7 to 10 gigabytes per
second or more that's like downloading an entire dual layer Blu-ray in 5
seconds and even if you're not working with massive sequential files like you'd
see with uh audio editing or video and
image rendering you can still get a big
performance boost with programs that access small amounts of data very
frequently I mean think about your web browser's cache for example because RAM
drives have very low latency or access
delay with very high iops the number of
operations per second so how then do you set this up well
there are a number of applications that you can find with a quick and easy
Google search that will convert free memory into a RAM drive for you just
tell it how big of a RAM Drive you'd like to make assign a drive letter and
you are pretty much good to go after that Windows will recognize your RAM
drive just like it would any other storage device connected to your system
so you'll be free to copy files and install programs to it as you normally
would but even though system memory is
much cheaper these days there are other costs associated with storing anything
resembling important data on a RAM Drive
anyone who's ever suffered a power outage while they were doing something
important on their PC has probably learned the hard way that RAM is what is
called volatile that means that its contents disappear when you power off
your system so some RAM Drive utilities
will back up the contents of your RAM dis to a hard drive or SSD for you
periodically but this will still mean long delays on shutdown while it purges
and on boot while the RAM Drive fills so
sorry if you were hoping to store your operating system on a RAM disk this
pretty much koses that unless you're
like a computer magician or you buy a super expensive hardware-based RAM disk
solution with like battery backup which is very rare outside of an Enterprise
setting and because of platform not to mention cost limitations RAM diss aren't
great for storing tons of stuff either
the most standard unbuffered memory that can fit on even the highest end consumer
motherboards these days is 128 gbt and
since your operating system and other applications will need some of that
space as well the largest RAM dis you can comfortably make will be a little
bit less than that but but don't let any
of that discourage you if you've got some excess RAM sitting around and you'd
like to see just how blisteringly fast you can make your storage experience
this is a fun little science fair project and free there are free ones and
can possibly even be useful for frequently used programs or applications
that are otherwise bottlenecked by drive speed especially as you can increase
read and write speeds even further by overclocking your CPU and RAM or by
tightening up your memory timings however if you're putting
anything resembling crucial data on a RAM Drive even save games okay anything
that's going to waste your time invest in a ups for your rig as well because
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