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From: Martin Jay on 29 Apr 2010 18:40
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:08:15 +0000, charles
<someone(a)somewhere.invalid> wrote:

>I use Dataram's RAMDisk as well as another payware ramdisk. It works
>well. The feature of Dataram's is that it can allocate space above the
>4G ceiling on a 32bit XP machine, which the payware product can't.

Is it really a RAM disc?

IIRC 32bit Windows XP can only access about 3GBytes of RAM so,
presumably, the OS has to swap at least part of it to hard drive
anyway.

And I'm struggling to see the point of a RAM disc these days.
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From: charles on 30 Apr 2010 22:40
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:40:47 +0100, Martin Jay <martin(a)spam-free.org.uk>
wrote:

>On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:08:15 +0000, charles
><someone(a)somewhere.invalid> wrote:
>
>>I use Dataram's RAMDisk as well as another payware ramdisk. It works
>>well. The feature of Dataram's is that it can allocate space above the
>>4G ceiling on a 32bit XP machine, which the payware product can't.
>
>Is it really a RAM disc?
>
>IIRC 32bit Windows XP can only access about 3GBytes of RAM so,
>presumably, the OS has to swap at least part of it to hard drive
>anyway.
>
>And I'm struggling to see the point of a RAM disc these days.

Yes, a RAM disk or disc if you prefer.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramdisk)

And Yes, 32bit Windows can only access 3-4G of memory so if the machine
has more memory than that, the only way to use it is with something like
Dataram's product.

The main point of it is that however fast the physical disk is, a RAM
disk is faster. There are other reasons, data security for one. Once the
machine is turned off, any sensitive data that was on the RAM disk is
completely gone.

From: Spamblk on 6 May 2010 22:33
Martin Jay <martin(a)spam-free.org.uk> wrote in
news:991.1272584461.20100429(a)spam-free.org.uk:

> And I'm struggling to see the point of a RAM disc these days.

If you have lots of RAM, you can use a Ramdisk to store temporary files or
even reassign the temporary directory. A potential saving of some write
cycles to the hard drive.
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