caching downloads

[AdamAdsy]

I have found that when a lot of downloads are being done as well as logging processes and other streaming type things my hard drive becomes very fragmented. The other problem is the hard drive stays writing for extended periods of time and since the drive is a 75GXP IBM drive this is probably a bad idea (awaiting the clicking sound any time now). I have other hard drives in my computer and i leave the turn off hard drive function at about 5 mins so that most of them stay turned off.

What i wanted to do (to get to the point) was to use the RAM like a huge cache where it would transfer ~200 megs to the ram and then write it all in 1 go to the hard drive, the hard drive could then spin down again (increase its lifespan) until the next 200 megs needs to be written. The data would be a lot less fragmented as well.

I currently have 512megs of ram and unless i am video editing or image editing it always has at least 300 megs free so is there a way of doing this?

Thanks in advance.

[Karifan]

Depending on the os you are using, RAMDisk Pro is something to consider
but its more of a virtual drive on ram type thing. It will let you allocate an amount of ram to install and run a program or a process.
If you already have a downloading progie then you can set it to move the items automatically to the disk from RamDisk.
Hope that helps.