Cfguy, What you are refering to are SSD drives, they have persistent storage while RAM drives are in you RAM memory and are volatile.

Cfguy, EVO 512GB according to google web search is a Samsung MicroSD FLASH Memory card, hardly RAM and not faster than any decent SSD of which it is crude version of! RAM Drives DID exist as a fad before SSD FLASH drives became viable and were PCI cards and SATA devices towards the end of their time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/74rf6h/do_they_still_make_ram_hard_drives/

If you want to install a RAM drive then you can do it in software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_RAM_drive_software utilising a fixed or variable amount of spare RAM either in windows address space or in some cases dedicated graphics RAM address space.
TK

mike, Well, this program works slightly different than what you describe here, it doesn't use a RAM Disk since that would require a kernel driver or at least a file filter driver. This software is much faster because it skips the need to go to Kernel land and handles everything in user land with memory mapped files.

Mark, I have FFox installed in my WIn11VM where I monitored the installation of today's GOTD. It's the regular version, not from the Store, and works just fine with GiMeSpace RAM Temp Folder running, though its setup for privacy mode, in case that matters.

Mark, You could try running this program as with administrator rights. Right click on the 2 executables, select properties, go to the compatibility and enable Run this program as administrator. This is likely going to solve the issue with firefox.

Hi Mark,
I had the same issue with Firefox over here.
Running the program as an administrator solved the problem
Excerpt from the readme:
"To always run this program as Administrator Go to the \Program files (x86)\GiMeSpace RAMFolder\ folder and right click on RAMFolder.exe to select "Properties", Go to the "Compatibility" tab and click "Change settings for all users", Check the "Run this program as an administrator" checkbox ,click apply and then click OK twice to close program's properties."
Take care

Mark, Everyone needs to use Firefox... if they want to use a browser that doesn't spy on them and sell their data to others. Everyone should use Firefox, created by a privacy rights respecting non-profit, if they are concerned about the concentration of power and wealth in the hands of a Blackrock and Vanguard owned techopoly.

Also, its a dam good browser that does not deserve the drop in end user share it has suffered in the last few years.

But you knew all of this already.

mike, This software does not slow down your system, please tell us how you noticed this slows down programs.

mike, I perceive we have multiple users calling themselves "mike" EVO 512GB is NOT a RAM drive it is a slow MicroSD FLASH memory card with very limited performance compared to even SATA3 SSD drives let alone NvME. Your SSD may thank you if you divert all your writes to an external FLASH memory device but the FLASH memory device won't as it has even less practical Erase/Write capacity than conventional SSD's do with full wear leveling and internal cache and thermal monitoring which MicroSD cards lack. Do continuous writes for any significant period of time to a Samsung EVO 512GByte and it will cook it's controller permanently that is why they produce a high-endurance model for surveillance cameras and dash cam use. Only way I can see todays giveaway slowing your system down in any significant way is if it's already RAM bound e.g. a 64bit windows 10 system with 4GB or less physical RAM then the extra used by this could cause page file thrashing and virtual memory compression/decompression bogging down both the CPU and emmc storage that such under spec'd systems often have.
TK

Micky, Windows does zero out memory before it is allocated for new purposes like storing files in RAM. So this is not an issue

Micky, I assume that if someone already has access to your computer, you are already in bigger troubles.

MOV, this program works by modifying the windows storage cache behavior making writes to %TEMP% folder not write-through so for up to 128Mbytes of %TEMP% files nothing get written to the physical media this helps both rotational hard drives and SSD but in different ways, rotational hard drives in terms of performance as physical writes are slower than cache only writes and SSD by reducing the daily erase/write cycles from electrical writes to SSD. But 128MB is too small for installing many programs or large windows updates packages. There are no significant controls on the RAM temp folder product which a cut down edition of GiMeSpace RAM Folder which actually has controls and settings. It does not work using the conventional method of creating a small RAMDrive letter and redirecting the environment variable %TEMP% to the RAMdrive letter which with some RAMdrive providers can be dynamic in size but usually ends up too small to be of serious use, like this disk cache modifications 128MByte limit. SO for SSD the reason is not speed of access which is only ever marginally measurable but improving SSD longevity in a system.
TK

MOV, Actually, this program is even much faster than RAM disks, some programs that are depending on heavy disk access like some games, etc even improve massively in load time compared to RAM Disks, even more compared to SSD disks. One user described loading a heavy modded game normally loading in 25 minutes from a RAM disk and with the help of RAM folder Pro only loading in 8 minutes!

Thank YouTK & GiMeSpace
I appreciate you sharing your knowledge
MOV

TK, Aside, there are many other free Open Source and paid software programs that offer larger than 128 MB space.

Alok, Over time, yes a lot of files can accumulate in the Temp folder, but in a typical working day it can be a lot less. If indeed you need more, the Pro version is on discount today.

Alok, there is a Pro version? are you sure? All I see are two editions Gimespace RAM Folder 2.2.0 the full product with controls and the lite cut down paid edition on offer here called Gimespace RAM TEMP Folder 1.2.0 that is hard coded to just modify the disk cache behaviour on 128MBytes of writes to %TEMP% folder. It is unclear if it also includes the C:\Windows\temp folder in its schema too. In windows there is not a single TEMP folder but at least two. "C:\users\[username]\AppData\Local\temp" and "C:\Windows\temp" but there is also another used by windows update "C:\Windows\WinSXS\Temp" to contain the renames on reboot that must never be included in RAM caching with no write through as it has to survive cold reboots in order to complete updates.
TK

TK, Yes version 2.2 is the Pro version.
Only the Temp folder that is read by user programs is supported in the lite edition. The other folders are used by the OS.

Alok, There are many other software programs available that offer larger RAM disk, even in free mode.

Rok, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_RAM_drive_software ignore the ones for operating systems you do not use.
TK

Alok, Only the path set in the environment Temp folder is used. If you need more folders then please use the Pro edition.
No the 4MB is not a typo, in 32 bits windows all memory that can be reserved is limited to 2 or 3GB since the system also reserves 1 or 2 GB. So it is impossible to reserve address space for a file to grow even beyond a GB and since more files need to be supported only 4mb is workable. But who is using 32bit windows still?
32bit apps on 64bit Windows don't have this problem since the address space of 64bits is massive.

GiMeSpace, Thanks for clarifying.

Would the Pro version be able to keep the following folders clean:

C:\Windows\Temp
C:\ProgramData\TEMP
C:\Users\{...}\AppData\LocalLow
Etc.

Or they would practically remain the same way since system processes are not impacted.

Also, can you share till when would the Pro version be on discount?

GiMeSpace, I use Windows Vista 32bit patched to server 64GByte RAM limit and run with 8GBytes of physical RAM most of which is used as extended storage cache, why still use 32bit, it is more RAM allocation efficient for handling 8 bit character based memory allocations by only allocating 32bit os space for a byte instead of wasteful 64bit systems including Android that by default allocate a full 64bit wide memory allocation to hold just a 8 bit character, which most atomic allocations are, also for hardware compatibility where many existing USB devices only ever produced 32bit drivers and could not be made to function under a 64bit edition of windows. There may be an industry riptide pushing new hardware to 64bit only support, but it's still sensible IF you have much invested in perfectly functional 32bit only hardware devices especially if the operating system is still happily accepting cumulative security patches manually every month using the ones provided for Windows Server 2008 SP1 which are the same as the ones that used to be provided for Windows Vista SP2. Also some Windows 7 to 10 OEM systems are only 32bit as 32bit uses RAM much more efficiently and systems with just 2GB of physical address space do not work well when forced to run 64bit even with RAM compression as implemented in windows 10. PS why are you calling Gimespace RAM Folder "the Pro edition"? it's a different product not a different license edition!
TK

Alok, Yes you can select up to 8 folders in the Pro version. If that is not enough please send an email to request more. The Pro version will be on discount for a few more days.

TK, I am aware of the patches you can apply under 32bits windows. Still the only workable file size limit in this program stays 4mb. That is all that is possible for these 32 bits OS versions.
The Pro version allows you to customize all setting, use your GPU VRAM and allows up to 8 folders.

GiMeSpace, why are we being offered only the lite version again? Why not offer the real pro program and not the undocumented lite RAM TEMP Folder... toy.
TK

GiMeSpace, how does windows cache files greater than 4MBytes under 32bit windows or doesn't it? If win32 can cache larger than 4MBytes is the problem with how you interface into cache to modify its write behavior?
TK

TK, The windows cache works differently. RAM Folder needs to reserve address space in order for the file to grow if more data is written to it. This address space is limited in 32bit so that's why there is a trade off between the maximum grow size and the number of files that can be handled.