RAM drive

Given its use of the ram drive boot times were actually faster than 80386 class computers.

Shag had spied Cardona at the window, but not until the ramming drive had been on its way.

RAM drives can access data with only the memory address of a given file, with no movement, alignment or positioning necessary.

When starting a program it is loaded from the optical disc and decompressed into a RAM drive.

The loss of the RAM drive.

This is convenient because RAM drives are often small due to the higher price per byte than conventional hard drive storage.

File access time is greatly decreased since a RAM drive is solid state (no mechanical parts).

Many Unix and Unix-like systems provide some form of RAM drive functionality.

Storage: battery-backed storage memory (non-volatile RAM drive)

RAM drives are particularly useful in high-performance, low-resource applications for which Unix-like operating systems are sometimes configured.

Some RAM drives use a compressed file system such as crams to allow compressed data to be accessed on the fly, without unprepossessing it first.

In lieu of a floppy or hard drive, it contained a 2 megabyte RAM drive, but this reduced its utility as well as its size.

The next two Rams drives saw two Sam Bradford touchdown passes to Danny Amendola and Michael Hoomanawanui, respectively.

A subsequent Rams drive was stopped at the Cleveland 12 when Kenny Konz intercepted a Norm Van Brocklin pass.

The first software RAM drive for microcomputers was invented and written by Jerry Karlin in the UK in 1979/80.

WordStar would still access the "disk" repeatedly, but the far faster access of the RAM drive compared to a floppy disk yielded a substantial speed improvement.

Second, the maximum throughput of a RAM drive is limited by the speed of the RAM, the data bus, and the CPU of the computer.

Apart from the risk of data loss, the major limitation of RAM drives is their limited capacity, which is constrained by the amount of RAM within the machine.

Mac OS X users can use the hdid, newfs (or newfs hfs) and mount utilities to create, format and mount a RAM drive.

Meh, RAM drives are ancient tech, and have been pretty universally obsoleted by OSs and application that can intelligently cache data in RAM.

RAM drives use the normal RAM in main memory as if it were a partition on a hard drive rather than actually accessing the data bus normally used for secondary storage.

There are also six utility programs - disk cache, screen saver, screen accelerator, RAM drive, virus protection and something called D.P.M.I. - that may be loaded as options.

The internal ram drive is powered by an auxiliary battery inside the unit which needs to be recharged every week or so in order to keep the contents of the ram drive.

The performance of a RAM drive is in general orders of magnitude faster than other forms of storage media, such as an SSD, hard drive, tape drive, or optical drive.

Usually no battery backup is needed due to the temporary nature of the information stored in the RAM drive, but an uninterrupted power supply can keep the entire system running during a power outage, if necessary.