Re: Ram Drive

From: w_tom (w_tom1_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/16/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:33:34 -0500

  DOS did not do pre-emptive multi-tasking. Therefore the
program had to wait for data to be written to disk drive.
Today we have multi-tasking. Data is literally left in memory
for another program to write it to the disk. What you want to
do with a Ram Drive is now called cache. Already part of the
OS. Your Ram drive would only slow the system by adding more
work and probably creating more memory faults (virtual memory
access to hard drive).

Gareth Tuckwell wrote:
> Way back in DOS days, it was possible to setup an area of memory
> that would be assigned a drive letter and act as a disk drive
> (only RAM fast). I want to do this in windows to give me a
> lightning fast 'drive' that I can use for temporary files, when
> building code to improve my 10 minutes of hard disk intensive
> build time!
>
> Is it possible to setup a ramdrive in Windows XP? I have 2GB of
> RAM and would like to use about 512MB for a ramdrive which I
> can assign a drive letter to - help!???

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