RAM Disk on Windows 11

How hard is for some people to understand that you can have up to 128GB on a workstation nowadays and want chunk of 100GB to be loaded inside the ram, for several reasons, like compilation or in my case, data that is loaded because I have to do a repeated task connecting and disconnecting from accounts that need loading several GBs every time and while doing that thousands of small files are written or read, most o them around 100KB to 20MB.

M.2 are good? yes they are, but doing tasks like this burn M.2 literally by overheating(not just the usage) random read/writes are most costy to storage devices, i needed a cooler on top of mine, cause it was touching 90ºC easily, then i got a secondary one, to split from main system.

Buying the second m.2 cost me about the same price as buying more 2x 32GB sticks of ram would btw, with 10% of the actual benefit it would.

There are dozens of situations that using RAM storage, either as a temp/cache or as copy, that is not going to be saved after, would be essential.

But the main point is, speed is a major factor, cause 10x the speed is a lot and that factor is highly unlikely to ever change.

Yes, there are 3rd party software around, but they often end up with dozens of issues that are affected by system updates breaking them, or apps resetting/deleting mklink junctions for instance, i used to have imdisk in windows 10, but got tired of redoing the junctions and having to restore backups.

This happens because even though symlinks are a system thing, they are not default behavior, so apps won't support and the system most of the time won't pass the path like if they were real path, which microsoft could do with a snap a finger.

BTW ramdisk is not really that different from caching, which already exists, but the current format denies us real access to control the limit of the cached data and it could easily allow us to pre cache entire folders, in fact this behavior already exists to some level in file servers.

I'm really hoping that the new keys found in a recent update are somehow a way to increase caching waay beyond current levels.

NtfsCachedRunsBinMaxLengthInBytes"=hex(b):00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
"NtfsCachedRunsDelta"=hex(b):00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
"NtfsCachedRunsInsertLimit"=hex(b):00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
"NtfsCachedRunsLimitMode"=hex(b):00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00

Otherwise i might just end up going back to W10 or W7.

How hard is for some people to understand that you can have up to 128GB on a workstation nowadays and want chunk of 100GB to be loaded inside the ram, for several reasons, like compilation or in my case,

Sorry, but the question for a clarification. Can you evaluate:

a) a percentage of users who have 128 GB RAM - 90 %, 50 %, 20 %, 5 %, 1 %, or less,

b) a percentage of workstations with 128 GB RAM among total number of sold PCs?

Capacity = / = doing

Anyone who pays for a high end motherboard and processor can and likely would pay for 128GB cause the price in comparison is little.

1 i9 is usually the same price as 4 x 32GB

the majority of users that bought/built PCs nowadays have around 16GBs of ram, that can be easily inferred from the fact that DDR4 starting size is 4GB per slot, BUT the price of a 8GB slot was very soon nearly the same and most PCs are built for minimal usage like browsing, as happened to every stage of DDR memories, so it can be expect that the 16GB slot will cost nearly the same as the minimum 8GB DDR5, if they don't already do.

But let's stop guessing and get some real data:

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/processormfg/

On processors statistics:
Intel
3.3 Ghz to 3.69 Ghz = 15.11%
3.7 Ghz and above = 2.94%
3.0 Ghz to 3.29 Ghz = 6.62%
AMD
3.3 Ghz to 3.69 Ghz = 13.01%
3.7 Ghz and above = 10.00%
3.0 Ghz to 3.29 Ghz = 6.09%

total = 53,77% of the total player base have a processor that can handle 128GB of ram, those are the ones which are mid to high end.

As for ram statistics:
16 GB = 49.88%
32 GB = 22.77%
64 GB = 3.72%
More than 64 GB = 0.30%

from this data we can see that the ones at 32 + 64 + More = 25,79% of the total player base are the ones who could possibility benefit from using a ram disk or extra caching.

This isn't proof the market has already 128GB, this is proof that the market could or would use such a thing if it was available, most people have no clue what a ram disk is lawl

It is also valid to point out that we are talking about players, the amount of ram a PC could have for professional use increases by a lot considering that applications like CAD style are already demanding in ram and big projects would benefit a lot.

Another example:
"SOLIDWORKS recommends at least 16 GBs of RAM. TriMech recommends at least 32 GBs of RAM, at least 64 GBs if you are conducting regular FEA and CFD simulations.

adding a me-too for those derailers who don't understand use-cases.
Sometimes if I am crunching BMD6K RAW footage, it would be nice to know an official way to set-aside 32GB-96GB RAMdisk to "pre-load" a batch of clips that I will be scrubbing through shortly.
With TLC SSD's being the norm at time of writing, there is hilarious speed-crashes once they have been in continuous use for 30+ minutes and/or GC is overrun.

Hello Igor Leyko,

I clearly got your point that you aren't advocating for it -- and (once more) that is not the question here.

I clearly understood that you refer to commercial (non-Microsoft) Software as a solution. Understood and already taken into account.
No need to put any more comments unless they bring solid knowledge or solutions.

Constructive information is always welcome.

Let's concentrate on the subject. To recall it: Title "RAM Disk on Windows 11". Main question is "... how to create a ram disk on Windows 11."

Thank you.