A few years ago, we looked at how to create and benchmark a RAM Disk on your Mac. But hardware has advanced quite a bit since then, and so we wanted to see how Apple’s latest Macs — the 2013 Mac Pro and 2014 MacBook Pro — performed when configured with a RAM Disk. Read on to find out how we got our Mac to transfer data at 5.8 gigabytes per second.
How to Create a 10 GB/s RAM Disk in Windows
Do you have extra RAM and a need for speed? Why not put that unused memory to use and get a logical drive with speeds of 10 GB/s or more? We show you how to create a blazing fast RAM Disk in Windows with a free utility and just a few minutes of configuration.
How to Create a 4GB/s RAM Disk in Mac OS X
RAM Disks, as the name indicates, are logical storage volumes created using a computer’s memory (RAM) instead of a traditional hard drive or solid state drive. The benefits are easy to understand: RAM operates at speeds far beyond current hard drive technology. But there’s also a major negative: data stored in RAM is not persistent, meaning that it is erased when the RAM loses power due to a reboot, shutdown, or power loss. Despite this drawback, there are still several…