What is a RAM Disk ?
Ramdisk is a virtual drive created in RAM. The advantage being it’s much faster than a Hard disk drive can ever be, since it has no moving parts – transfers are all electronic. There is a catch, however, RAM Disk is volatile storage, meaning data on it is lost the moment you lose power, or reboot the computer. RAM Disks also take away from your system’s available RAM. Once you reserve a portion of the RAM for such disk, it is no longer available for your running programs. How do I create one ? The Ramdisk driver we use for this guide is almost identical and based on the Microsoft sample driver described here: Microsoft KB 257405. The version we use in this article fixes a bug with Windows XP and NTFS partitions (described in the MS KB article) and adds the ability to change drive letter and disk size in a more user-friendly way, using the Device Manager. We can install/configure the Ramdisk in three simple steps: • Download and uncompress the Ramdisk driver in an empty directory you ca
