Ram drive?

[Hellmund]

How do you create a Ram drive and what exactly is it?
Thanks for any assistance
Hellmund

[SpookyEddy]

A RAM drive is when a portion of memory is set aside and used in a similar way to a hard disk.

This can then be used to store data as any other disk, but has the advantage of being alot quicker.

However any data stored on a RAM drive is lost upon re-booting.

You should be able to find plenty of shareware/freeware on the net. Try winfiles.com site.

[Hellmund]

Thanks for the info
I'll have to look into it and muck around with it a little
Hellmund

[Wilan Wong]

So does the RAM drive make the files you put in the RAM drive access and copy much faster than the Hard Disk is that right?

[BBA]

Ramdrive actually sets up part of memory as a physical drive with a drive letter and all.

Any files copied to it can be accessed incredibly fast. Windows boot disks all create a 2M ramdrive by default, so you can look into the autoexec.bat and config.sys on your windows boot disk to see how it gets set up.

There is a utility I saw once to create a ramdrive while windows is running, such as maybe 128M, for use loading apps from and such. Works great, but I would need about a gig of ram to set as a ramdrive to run my apps on for it to be useable, then I would need more ram for normal memory usage. So, I don't fool with it anymore.

[Brydon]

Here is a link with some free software http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.thetechzone.com/articles/ram_drive/index.htm