For context, a RAM Disk provides fast I/O (read and write) performance, faster than SSDs (Solid State Drives), with wider bandwidth and much lower latencies.
There are plenty of free and paid options for RAM Disk software available. This article is not about finding the fastest RAM Disk software available, so I haven’t gone out and benchmarked a range of products. My goal was to find the best “free for commercial use” RAM Disk software that works well and meets a list of requirements as laid out below. So I won’t be adding screen shots of output from tools like CrystalDiskMark, etc.
What is the best free for commercial use RAM Disk I hear you ask? The answer is Arsenal Image Mounter (AIM), from Arsenal Recon, which was developed by the legendary Olof Lagerkvist of ImDisk Toolkit fame.
Okay, so I gave away the secret early in this article. But now I’m going to take you on a journey of how I got there, the use cases, the challenges, and the PowerShell scripts I used to deploy and create it.
