Effect of installing MATLAB in D drive

It could be a silly question but if I install MATLAB in D drive, does it still use RAM? I ask this because I have large data, single image read gives out of memory error. So if I install MATLAB in D drive, will it use memory in D? Thank you!

Answer 1

[Greg]

The installation location will have no impact on memory use. You can try increasing your virtual memory (pagefile in Windows) so that the OS thinks it has a ton of RAM that is actually on hard disk. Beware that when the OS hits virtual memory, it is limited to disk transfer speeds ( extremely slow compared to RAM access speeds).

[Saisri Padmaja Jonnalagedda]

Thank you!

[Greg]

Happy to help.

Answer 2

[Nathan Brown]

Similar Question title; is it recommended to install MatLab on an SSD or is it ok to install on a hard drive. Don't have much SSD free