Any free 12GB+ RAMdisk? I can only find 4GB ones.

[Space Lynx]

I have 32GB of RAM for the first time in my life, just want to see if I like a RAMdisk or not... would prefer it do stuff for me automatically, like load up Chrome in it upon boot, etc.

Does anyone know how to do this or a good program for it?

 

[Jism]

Software ramdisk is bad, knowing that the moment reset or powerloss takes place, the ramdisk contents is gone.

https://www.google.nl/?ion=1&espv=2#q=software+ramdisk+free

Gigabyte used to release a product that you could actually install DIMMS onto it and use it as a practical bootdisk. However, that version was limited to only 4GB, and later revisions offered some more space. They would carry a battery to save contents to.

 

[R-T-B]

Software ramdisk is bad, knowing that the moment reset or powerloss takes place, the ramdisk contents is gone.

https://www.google.nl/?ion=1&espv=2#q=software+ramdisk+free

Gigabyte used to release a product that you could actually install DIMMS onto it and use it as a practical bootdisk. However, that version was limited to only 4GB, and later revisions offered some more space. They would carry a battery to save contents to.

Most ramdisk software offers to write to disk on shutdown.

Software ramdisk performance wise, is quite good. But you're in an area of diminishing returns with todays SSDs. Are you really going to feel much difference between 500MB/s and 20000MB/s? Certainly not as much as you'd think.

 

[jboydgolfer]

asrock has a free program that allows usage of more than 4Gb's, iirc you need to have an Asrock MoBo, but since your specs arent filled in i cant sauy if you do or dont, so heres the link anyway...

http://www.asrock.com/Feature/xfast/xfastram/index.asp

and the Asrock one Does write to disk on shut down if you choose for it to do so.
if you own an SSD its a waste of time tho, ive been there and done it.

 

[Nobody99]

I have been using SoftPerfect RAM Disk, it has no limits.

Software ramdisk performance wise, is quite good. But you're in an area of diminishing returns with todays SSDs. Are you really going to feel much difference between 500MB/s and 20000MB/s? Certainly not as much as you'd think.

I tried running a VM loaded in RAMdisk and it was a lot faster than SSD. SSD still has higher latency and SSD eventually gets fragmented although it is still a lot faster than HDD in its fragmented state. There is also endurance to consider, if you are working with a few GBs of files and are writing a lot it might be a good idea to use RAMdisk because SSDs have a very low endurance that is considering the max endurance is still higher than the advertised one. I am lucky mine has 600 TBW endurance.

 

[xorbe]

RAM latency is far less than SSD latency.

Software ramdisk is bad

That's not what OP asked about.

 

[RejZoR]

I have 32GB of RAM for the first time in my life, just want to see if I like a RAMdisk or not... would prefer it do stuff for me automatically, like load up Chrome in it upon boot, etc.

Does anyone know how to do this or a good program for it?

Well, essentially you just need a RAM disk drive, then you can use other tools or batch files to orchestrate how things work through that.