Linux: tmpfs – simply nowhere
For a long time I suffered in search of the perfect ramdisk for Windows. In any Linux this is no problem, because there tmpfs, create yourself daddy, montiruesh it as tmpfs, give her size to 10GB all, you can forget about the brakes and the accumulation of debris, throw all the temporary files operatives, protecting the hard disk drive, or, more justified — SSD диска, limited resources. And at the same time, though the size of ramdisk and 10gb, and the system you only have 8GB iron operatives + 4GB per pagefile, The system will be available for all operative, while the disk is empty, and operative will quietly use, when put ramdisk files. And if to put something, that more 8 GB, the ramdisk devour more and swap) But if you delete a file all instantly available.
Windows: alas, there is no built-ramdisk
As for Windows, so there we can not just create a ramdisk and putting there all, that pleases. But in this case, we will help third-party software, provides the ability to create Ramdisk. This bunch of software: There are both free and paid, all of them allow you to create a disc in memory and refer to it as a flash drive. Speed read and write to the disc at all is almost the same, but varies in small regions.
And now I tell you about the software, I tried to use.
SuperSpeed RamDisk
Manufacturer Website: http://www.superspeed.com/desktop/ramdisk.php
Style: Shareware
Price: $79.95 for the regular version and $59.95 for Plus version.
My impression: The product is good, It does, what is required, but, because I put a pirated version, in which there is an unsigned driver, I had to dance with a tambourine, to turn off the test mandatory driver signing. The licensed version, of course, this would not have been. The site says, that supports the use of an invisible memory (for 32-bit systems with 4 GB of RAM, available to them 3.25 GB, So this prog is able to use the remaining memory too, but only for special chipsets).
SoftPerfect Ramdisk
Manufacturer Website: http://www.softperfect.com/products/ramdisk/
Style: Freeware
Price: $0
My impression: Very good product, besides free! Although, he had been paid. The slightly better performance, чем Superspeed ramdisk. Of all the ramdisk prefer this.
Primo Ramdisk
Manufacturer Website: http://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/primo-ramdisk/
Style: Shareware
Price: $29.95 на 2PC Standard Edition и $69.95 на 2PC Ultimate edition
My impression: Better, in my view, product. Бывший VSuite Ramdisk. It is also able to use the invisible memory, as superspeed ramdisk, However, this program has an interface to modify environment variables and create a Junction points, and the coolest feature: Dynamic Memory Usage, just like tmpfs for Linux! For this, I fell in love with her. Besides price for this product is much lower, чем у Superspeed Ramdisk.
Results
And So, out of all this, I chose it because Primo Ramdisk, that he is able to dynamically allocate memory, so if you create a ramdisk volume of 5GB, these 5GB just will not go away, and will be used as needed. In other products, such is not considered: Create Disk to 2GB, exactly 2GB of memory left on the disk and can not be used by the system. therefore, the answer is obvious.
