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How to create a RAM disk and what does it need in the system

How many years do you regularly use your computer? If more than ten, then immediately remember that bleak and dull time, when even 128 MB of RAM in the system were, if not a luxury, then the standard is standard. In those years, computers grunted and grated, launching especially voracious applications.

Fortunately, now everything has changed. Computer hardware has become so accessible that even a RAM disk made of fiction turned into everyday reality. By the way, what is it? Simply speaking, this is a regular virtual disk, which is located in the RAM. I must say that the ideas of this method of storing information appeared a very long time ago. After all, the speed of reading and writing RAM is an order of magnitude higher than that of any hard drives! However, with the cost of all components at the time, the idea was not very attractive.

Years passed. Computers and their components became cheaper, soon a dozen gigabytes of RAM did not surprise anyone. It was then that they remembered again about the undeservedly forgotten RAM disk. Instantly, there were tools for its software implementation, after which many demanding users began to actively use it.

Let's look at ways to create such disks. If you carefully read the written, you probably noticed the software method. As it is easy to understand, in this case RAM drive is created using a specialized program.

The advantages are obvious: here you have the speed of the disk, and its scanty value, because for its creation you need only a RAM ram, and software, which in most cases is completely free. With the minuses, too, everything is clear: you will not create a really large virtual disk, since some part of the resources will still have to be left to the system.

That's why advanced hardware has become popular hardware, which is somewhat more expensive, but it allows you to create really large drives. As a rule, there are options with integrated memory cards, although there are devices with connectors for standard types of RAM.

The most high-quality models are equipped with rechargeable batteries, thanks to which such a RAM disk can already be compared with a conventional hard drive in terms of reliability of information storage. Of the minuses, one should note the high cost of implementing the hardware method, although in this case one does not even need to use any software.

Having understood what RAM-disks are, you need to familiarize yourself with the scope of their use. Here everything is simple: thanks to amazing speed, they are ideal for "gluttonous" applications. In addition, the way of placing an Internet browser cache on such a virtual disk is now popular, as a result of which the latter starts to work many times faster.

If the RAM disk is large enough, then you can install the same browser entirely on it, and the speed of its work will grow several times. However, you can not do without special programs that at the time of turning off the computer will save the entire contents of the virtual disk on a physical medium.

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