How does Asus RAMdisk work?

[Blubberykollis]

Do I create a partition with my ram and then tell a certain software to run on that partition I just created?

Or how does it work?

 

[Tradesman1]

This will prob help more than a short quick answer:

http://rog.asus.com/technology/republic-of-gamers-motherboard-innovations/ramdisk/

Can be very handy 😉

 

[Blubberykollis]

I sort of got it.
Is it possible to keep a RAMDisk after the computer is rebooted?

 

[Tradesman1]

RAMDisk software generally offers the chance to save to hard drive on shutdown and then to reload the saved at boot, (slows down shutdown and boot up, but no real big deal

 

[Blubberykollis]

Alright, I tried it on a game and the result was pretty neat. Went from 20 seconds loading to barely 8 seconds.

 

[Tradesman1]

Yep, it's nice, more you play with it, more uses you can find 😉

 

[Blubberykollis]

Maybe I should grab 2 more sticks of ram and get 32 GB?

 

[Tradesman1]

That's up to you, I usually run 32 on my main rigs, am testing some 32GB sets on a AMD rig as we speak

 

[Blubberykollis]

Hmm.. alright.

It would be nice to test bigger games on RAMDisk. So I think I'll buy 2 more sticks.

 

[peterh337]

Where is this RAM disk software, and what are the system requirements (OS, etc)?

I have googled but can't find an actual download site.