HOW TO… Boost your PC’s speed with a RAM drive
What you need: AMD Radeon RAMDisk software
Time required: One hour
If you’ve ever upgraded from a hard drive to a solid-state drive (SSD), you’ll know what a difference it can make. Your computer takes less time to boot, programs start more quickly, and files open in a flash. Now imagine if we told you there was an even faster option than SSD, called a RAM drive, and that it’s completely free.
The fastest storage in your computer isn’t your hard drive or SSD. It’s actually a very tiny amount of memory built into the processor, which is used to hold data on the cusp of being processed. This memory is crucial to the smooth running of the processor itself, which is why it’s locked off from the rest of the system – and from users.
Second fastest is the memory installed in sticks attached to the motherboard. Although the technology behind these is
