How to use your RAM as incredibly fast storage for video and image editing

5 Days ago, Sat, Jan 25, 2025, 04:18:37
How to use your RAM as incredibly fast storage for video and image editing
Do you find yourself suffering with slower transfer rates when working with lots of data? That's where a RAM disk can come into play. By using available random access memory (RAM) not currently reserved for other software, you can store a substantial amount of data with quick access to the CPU. The fastest PCIe 5.0 drives will offer speeds up to around 16 GB/s, which is nothing to snuff at, but a RAM disk could provide 40 GB/s. That's more than double what the fastest dedicated storage drives will offer and thankfully it's not too difficult to create a RAM disk using Windows.