What is AMD RAMDisk?

[vkadurin]

Recently i read about AMD software for making RAMDisks, coming together with the new high-speed memory by AMD. Can someone explain me what it is? I can't really get the idea...

[WhatARoaster]

According to the two line description, its just making a section of the RAM act as if it were a disk drive.

 

AMDs page:

http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/radeon-memory/Pages/ramdisk-overview.aspx

 

RAM drive (RAMDisk)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_drive

[mgsstar]

RAMDisk is basically using your ram as like a hard drive and using the ram as a disk will be way faster than a SSD.

Comparison between SSD HDD and RAMDisk:

Source:http://blog.laptopmag.com/faster-than-an-ssd-how-to-turn-extra-memory-into-a-ram-disk

[Commissar]

you can put ur browser cache into ramdisk, but i found it to be slower that hdd cache, and far more troublsome than it's worth.....

[fishymamba]

Download this: http://www.softperfect.com/products/ramdisk/

 

Pretty much the AMD RAMdisc, but free! I use it and it works great.

 

Here is a crystal disk mark of my RAM disc:

 

[Totocellux]

yeah, SoftPerfect RAMDisk it's great peace of software 

 

These are my results with 50MB and 1GB patterns: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Glenwing]

Please don't necro old threads