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What is a RAM drive
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Monday April 5, 2010
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Monday April 5, 2010
From time to time, you may hear someone refer to a RAM drive or a RAM disk. Is it one of those cute little USB thingys? Nope. RAM drives let you use computer memory as storage for much faster access. Here's the scoop.
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Wikipedia on RAM disk
- A RAM drive or RAM disk is a drive that's created, using software, from RAM.
- Because RAM is so much faster than even the fastest hard drive, a RAM drive can be quite useful.
- The contents of a RAM drive disappear when the computer is shut down.
- Some RAM drive software will backup the contents of the RAM drive and save it to disk.
- In the early days of computers, many techies used RAM drives to quickly open frequently used programs.
- Here are a few RAM drive products you can download and try.
Extra Drive Creator Professional
Gili RAMDisk
SuperSpeed RAMDisk
- A RAM drive or RAM disk is a drive that's created, using software, from RAM.
- Because RAM is so much faster than even the fastest hard drive, a RAM drive can be quite useful.
- The contents of a RAM drive disappear when the computer is shut down.
- Some RAM drive software will backup the contents of the RAM drive and save it to disk.
- In the early days of computers, many techies used RAM drives to quickly open frequently used programs.
- Here are a few RAM drive products you can download and try.
Extra Drive Creator Professional
Gili RAMDisk
SuperSpeed RAMDisk
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