Needless to say, the only real perk you get for having a game loaded into your RAM is zero loading times everything will load instantly. I used to us RAM drives all the time back in the day on my Amiga but with SSD’s (which are basically dedicated RAM) its day as come and gone, at least at this price.īut that’s just is orders of magnitude faster than SSD, you can expect SSDs to perform at around, 500mb/s read and write speeds, if you have a really really high end pci-e SSD you can max it out somewhere around 2gb/s or 3gb/s.ĭDR3 RAM just goes as fast as it needs to go which can be anywhere between 2GB/s and 16GB/s if I'm not wrong (that's how fast I've seen my RAM go on ramfs on benchmarking, not to be confused with ramdisk which I think is a little bit slower) the theoretical value is 64x the memory clock speed (so a 2600mhz ddr3 ram should in theory be able to transfer data at 166GB/s, which is of course more data per second than the RAM you even have in your system).
#Dataram ramdisk games Pc#
Personally I think that a better way to go as you won't lose the data when you turn off the PC so don't have to waste time reloading it to the RAM drive the next time you play and it doesn't eat your RAM up, which can cause preference issues if it has to hit the Pagefile because RAM is low. You can get a 128 gig SSD for 20.00 more. Can it be used stand alone? If so, how easy it to use that way? I assume you still has to copy the data with this? This does look nice and easy to use with Steam, so if that’s worth 30 bucks to you I'm cool with it. The longest part of setting up a drive is copying the data to it.
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With this program it takes all of 5 seconds to do both (minus the transfer itself). Originally posted by DV8ing1:I dare you to make a video of you setting up a game to be run in a ramdisk from start to finish and then back again.