The RAM disk bypasses the system hard drive, which is the slowest part of a computer. Freeing your data storage and retrieval from this mechanical disk gives your system an immediate boost.
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Gilisoft RAMDisk
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AR RAM Disk
AR RAM Disk is a freeware RAM Disk driver for Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
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SoftPerfect RAM Disk
SoftPerfect RAM Disk is a free high-performance RAM disk application that lets you have a disk on your computer entirely stored in its memory. As the memory is much faster than physical hard disks, it makes sense to store temporary data on a fast in-memory disk to achieve a higher performance. Whatever your job is, read on to find out what a RAM disk can offer you.
The program creates a virtual disk residing in the computer RAM accessible in Windows Explorer and other applications, allowing you to store any temporary information on this disk. Furthermore, Windows can be configured to use the disk for temporary files, so the system and most applications will use the fast in-memory disk for temporary data. As Windows and third-party applications often create a large number of temporary files for a short time only, using a RAM disk will extend your hard disk's life by sparing it from excessive reading and writing.
Modern computers are equipped with at least 1 GB of RAM, however most of the time there is a lot of unused memory that could be used as a high-performance alternative to the slower hard disk storage. This product lets you create any number of virtual RAM disks limited only by the memory available. You can also work with on-disk images and RAM disks associated with an on-disk file, that ensures your data is preserved between sessions.
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Gavotte Ramdisk
Gavotte Ramdisk is a free software based on Microsoft’s Ramdisk.sys, and later being added a GUI interface by lyh728. It is not only free to use, but also stable, doesn’t have size limitation, supports popular FAT16, FAT32, NTFS filesystems, and run on Windows 2000 operating system and above, including Vista.
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SuperSpeed RamDisk
SuperSpeed Software offers powerful solutions to
systems engineers, system administrators and power users whose Microsoft? Windows
systems are bottlenecked by disk I/O. Our cache, hybrid cache, and RAM disk products
shatter the disk I/O bottleneck, raising performance levels to dramatic new highs.
Products include SuperCache, SuperSpeed, RamDisk and RamDisk Plus.
starting price for ramdisk $275.95
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Primo Ramdisk
Primo Ramdisk is the second generation of VSuite Ramdisk product. It brings new features and improved performance, as well as a friendlier user interface. As VSuite Ramdisk did, Primo Ramdisk also provides a solution to speed up your computer by overcoming current hard disk bottleneck issue. It allows you to emulate hard disks using available physical memory. Because the access speed of physical memory is so much faster than most kinds of storage, this greatly speeds up your computer with reduced access time to files, which in turn, shows a huge improvement in overall performance.
Primo Ramdisk features a host of powerful functions and options maximizing performance and applicability. Primo Ramdisk supports up to 128 virtual disks. Each virtual disk can identify itself to Windows as a real physical hard disk or as a logical disk. It can be formatted with any Windows supported file system. Furthermore, Primo Ramdisk allows you to customize file system settings if necessary.
Primo Ramdisk also provides strong ability to rapidly save/restore ramdisk contents to/from an image file. Thus a ramdisk's contents can be preserved across computer restarts, in spite of the volatility of physical memory.
In addition, Primo Ramdisk offers unique features to effectively and efficiently manage system memory. It is able to dynamically allocate or release system memory for ramdisks, making better use of memory. Primo Ramdisk also implements the Unified Invisible Memory Management Interface (UIMMI) to create ramdisks from Invisible Memory, thereby overcoming the Windows limits on amount of system memory and allowing all installed physical memory to be fully utilized.
Besides ramdisks, Primo Ramdisk also supports to create hybrid-disks and file-disks, greatly extending its functionality.
Main Feature List
Disk Features
Supports ramdisk, hybrid-disk, and file-disk.
Supports SCSI disk, Direct-IO disk.
Supports one-time virtual disk.
Supports up to 128 virtual disks.
Memory Features
Supports Dynamic Memory Management (DMM).
Supports Unified Invisible Memory Management Interface (UIMMI).
Supports to access memory above 4 GB.
File System Features
Supports FAT/FAT32/NTFS file systems.
Supports user-defined cluster size.
Supports user-defined volume label, serial number and drive letter.
Supports user-defined folders.
Supports user-defined NTFS file system settings (compression, indexing, and permission).
Image File Features
Supports image file format: Plain/Smart/Compressed Image.
Supports load/save functions:
Load Only, Save at Shutdown, Save Before Removal, Timing Save, Real-time Save, and Manual Save.
Supports Delay Load mode.
Supports Quick Save mode.
Other Features
Supports system paging files.
Supports command line interface (CLI).
Supports multilingual user interface.
Integrates mini tools to easily utilize virtual disks.
* Not all editions of Primo Ramdisk support the listed features. For a complete feature comparison among editions, please see Edition Comparison.
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Dataram RAMDisk
RAMDisk creates a virtual RAM drive, or block of memory, which your computer treats as if it were a disk drive. By storing files and programs into memory, you can speed up internet load times and disk-to-disk activities, accelerate databases and reduce compile times. Save and load features allow RAMDisk to appear as persistent storage, even through reboots.
The free version is limited to a 4GB drive size.
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eBoostr
eBoostr™, working as an alternative solution to ReadyBoost and SuperFetch technologies, implements a different advanced approach to use flash memory to speed up your computer.
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SuperCache
SuperCache 5 intelligently stores frequently used disk data in system memory. The memory used to store the data is called a cache. SuperCache 5 intercepts requests for disk data and, when possible, fulfills the request using the cache instead of requesting data from the disk. When data is read from or written to the cache, the performance is similar to a RAM disk – extremely fast.
It will run during an evaluation period, after which it disables itself. Once the evaluation period expires, the product cannot be reinstalled without a key. To extend the evaluation period, contact the publisher.
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PrimoCache
PrimoCache Overview
PrimoCache is a supplementary software caching scheme that cooperates with system memory to provide data caching for disks. It improves system performance by transparently storing data into memory such that future requests for that data can be served faster. PrimoCache caches data on a logical block basis (offsets within a disk) while windows cache manager caches on a virtual block basis (offsets within a file).
PrimoCache can also utilize the OS Invisible Memory which is wasted on 32-bit Windows when 4GB memory or more is installed.
Principle
One of the PrimoCache's core components is a storage class filter driver which resides in the storage stack, intercepting I/O requests for data on disk. If requested data is contained in the cache, this request can be served by simply reading the cache, which is comparably faster. Otherwise the data has to be fetched from disk. Hence, the more requests can be served from the cache the better the overall system performance is.
Main Features
Supports LRU (Least Recently Used) and LFU (Least Frequently Used) cache algorithms
Supports caching strategies: Read/Write Caching, Read-Only Caching and Write-Only Caching
Supports Write-Through and Write-Deferred modes
Supports OS Invisible Memory
Supports SSD (Solid-state Drive) as Level-II cache
Supports persistent caching
Supports caching for multiple volumes
Supports TRIM command
Supports visual performance monitor
Supports cache plug and play
Supports basic and dynamic disks
Supports NTFS junction point
Supports volume with proprietary file system
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RamDiskUI
NOTE: This tool was migrated to http://alternativeto.net/software/imdisk-toolkit/ in March 2013.
RamDiskUI is a GUI to easily make a RamDisk with ImDisk.
ImDisk already has GUI for image file mounting in control panel and with context menus in Explorer, so this GUI only covers the "ramdisk part".
The GUI works from Windows XP to Windows 8 (32 and 64 bits). No additional libraries required.
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AMD Radeon RAMDisk
AMD Radeon RAMDisk harnesses the untapped potential of your system's memory to accelerate the loading and processing times of games, Web browsers and software suites.
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Bond Disc
Features:
Total Reliability
Extensive use of parity and redundant data storage enables you to recover your files even under conditions of severe scrambling or if the storage medium has large defective areas.
Perfectly Secure
Military-grade encryption that exceeds current 128-bit encryption standards and keeps your data secure even against the most powerful attacker for decades to come.
Ease-of-use
An integrated ramdisk lets you work with your files as you are used to. You control how the ramdisk is initialized and when and how your files will be saved, or if you desire, they will never touch your computer's hard disk.
Document Sealing
You can seal a document which effectively prevents its decryption. Your peers or partners can add their seal to the same document which prevents access to the document until all parties unseal it.
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StarWind RAM Disk
StarWind RAM Disk creates a high-performance virtual disk from RAM, offering a near-perfect solution for test and development scenarios, troubleshooting cases or other niched deployments, where size and data volatility don’t really matter.
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TmpDisk
TmpDisk is an Open Source simple RamDisk management tool. RamDisks are disks that use your memory (RAM) to create virtual hard disks on your Mac. RamDisks can be any size, limited only by your total memory and lightning fast. They are also temporary. Any files stored on a RamDisk will be permanently deleted when the disk is ejected. No need to worry about deleting, trash or cleaning up temporary files anymore.
TmpDisk is perfect for:
• Saving large files such as photos while editing
• Downloading and extracting zip files
• Storing of temporary logs and files
• Easily cleaning up tmp files
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