RAMDisk is a program that takes a portion of your system memory and uses it as a disk drive. The more RAM your computer has, the larger the RAMDisk you can create. What is the benefit? In a word: SPEED! GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. IRamDisk3.6.12MASTNT.zip (4.38 MB) Choose free or premium download SLOW DOWNLOAD. FAST INSTANT DOWNLOAD Download type: Free: Premium: Download speed: 0.03 KBps: Maximum: Waiting time: 12 Seconds: Instant.
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Creating a RAM disk is quite easy, even for novice users. The application lets you decide how much RAM to assign, where to store the virtual drive and more. You may create several drives if you need to. All drives are listed in a column, on the left side of the interface and you can tweak them in the larger area on the right. Wen your configurations are complete, you only need to click a button to mount the new RAM disk.
In addition to naming a RAM disk and setting its size and destination, you may enable a backup feature for your virtual drives. Because data stored in the RAM is lost after the first system reboot, you can set the application to back up that data on your main drive before dismounting the RAM disk.
Besides creating classical RAM disks, you can also create a Safari cache in your RAM. This will increase the browser's performance, giving you the possibility of surfing the web a bit faster.
Pros:
The application allows you to create several RAM disks, without any effort. You can choose how much memory to assign to a RAM disk. Also, the application allows you to create a Safari cache in your RAM.
Cons:
There are no obvious issues to mention.
iRamDisk can relieve your local disk drive and increase your operating system's performance in just a few seconds, without too much user input.
You can download iRamDisk free here.
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I code on a late 2011 Mac Mini with 8 GB RAM and a 256 GB SSD. This machine is a ton faster than my old MacBook Air was. Compilation still takes time, but it seems that iRamDisk helps a bit.
Lately I wondered if I could cut down the 30s compilation time (3mins with a clean build folder) if I had a Mac Pro, or MacBook Pro, or iMac, or whatever next tier device. Faster cores, more cores, doesn’t matter. But buying a Mac for $3k is out of question at the moment. So I’ve been looking for other tricks.
The only thing that’s faster than a SSD is RAM. That’s when I found the app iRamDisk. It offers an option to move the derived data folder to a virtual disk in RAM. It seems I can reduce the clean build time from 3mins to 2mins with that. Xcode needs about 1.5GB derived data for the Word Counter – at least that’s how big I had to make the RAM disk to not get filled quickly. The overall memory pressure is a bit higher, the Mac is using swap more, but compilation becomes faster at last.
There’s a downside, too: after every reboot the RAM disk is empty, so Xcode has to index the project again and compile fresh at least once a day. Depending on your usage this can be annoying or not be a problem at all.
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You can download a trial from the website or buy it for $19.99 on the Mac App Store.
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