Saturday, 29 April 2017

Methods to boost your Laptop/PC RAM

Considering all the hardware components that make up a PC or a smartphone, or any modern smart gadget, one of the most important component is RAM (Short for Random Access Memory). RAM is a type of computer storage which has data read and write speeds having magnitude faster than that of other storage Medias such as Solid State Drives and Hard Disk Drives.

      Therefore, RAM is important to the 'speed' of a device or speed depends on RAM. And this is why modern PCs such as high-end gaming laptops and workstations and smartphones come with good RAM.

      But for running a big game or a heavy-software application RAM is important, you can't install more RAM than what's supported by your computer (or more specifically, it depends on your motherboard). For example, if the motherboard of your laptop or desktop supports a maximum of 8GB RAM, you can't install 16GB of RAM (unless of course, you may go for a hardware upgrade). But what if you could make heavy programs and games run on your PC, with your less RAM?


      Yes it’s possible. What you need is to install a RAM Drive creator software. In simple words, this software takes a certain part of your computer's RAM and use it as a virtual hard drive called RAM Drive. This means that you can run a program from the hard drive run as fast as if it were running from RAM.

Sounds interesting? Let’s do it:

Note: There are a number of RAM Drive creator software available. For this tutorial, we've chosen Miray RAM Drive software. That's because it's simple to use and don't have any confusing settings and options. So even beginner-level users can take advantage of it.

Steps to make PC programs run faster with Miray RAM Drive.

Step 1: Download the free version of Miray RAM Drive and install it. The software will also install a virtual RAM disk driver in your PC.

Step 2: After installation the Miray RAM Drive runs in the system tray. Click its icon, and you'll see a slider that goes from minimum 20MB to maximum 4125MB. You can use this to adjust the amount of RAM that the software will use as a virtual hard drive.

Step 3: After setting the RAM limit, all you need to do is click the Green-coloured Power icon at the bottom and now the Miray RAM Drive will take it from there. The software will create a virtual RAM Drive, which will show up with your computer's other hard drive partitions.

      That's it. Now you ca run any heavy programs or games faster by transferring it in to the RAM Disk. When done, click on Miray RAM Drive's icon in the system tray again and turn it off.

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