If your computer has some RAM to spare, RAM drive is perfect to increasing the performance of any applications that must read and write any data. Using a special kernel mode driver along with system memory, a temporary can be created that significantly faster than traditional storage. Spindle based harddisk found in almost every computers have a maximum read and write speed of around 100 MB per second. The performance of RAM drives are only limited by speed of memory and chipsets. That result in read and write speeds well above 1 GB per second and on high end system much faster.
There are a lot of different ways to create RAM drive. The method that i'll show to you will use a free application (utility) called RAMDisk that will allow you to create drive up to 4092 MB (assuming you have more than 4096 MB RAM in your computer)
1. First, download dataram RAMDisk
2. Then, click start button, and launch RAMDisk Configuration Utility
3. On the Settings tab specify the Disk size and Type.
4. Then, click start RAMDisk and your drives will be ready for used in windows explorer listed to the next of the other storage drives on your computer.
The main problem with RAMDisk is the non-persistent nature of the disk. Turn off your computer and the contents of RAMDisk will be gone forever. Dataram RAMDisk has a helpful feature that will allow you to save the state of your RAM drive upon shutting down and loading image of it, from a file from your harddisk, on startup to restore any data. You can find these settings on the load and save tab of the RAMDisk Configuration Utility.
Now, that you have a RAM drive setup and try running moving the internet explorer temporary internet files to speed up internet browsing or redirect any other disk intensive applications to use RAM drives.
