A RAM drive (also called a RAM disk) is a block of random-access memory (primary storage or volatile memory) that a computer's software is treating as...
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RAM drive software allows part of a computer's RAM (memory) to be seen as if it were a disk drive, with volume name and, if supported by the operating...
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Disk Utility is a system utility for performing disk and disk volume-related tasks on the macOS operating system by Apple Inc. The functions currently...
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Random-access memory (redirect from Shadow ram)
or changes to the RAM disk are written out to a nonvolatile disk. The RAM disk is reloaded from the physical disk upon RAM disk initialization. Sometimes...
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Initial ramdisk (redirect from Initial RAM disk)
initramfs, a new model for initial RAM disks Almesberger, Werner; Lermen, Hans (2000). "Using the initial RAM disk (initrd)". Archived from the original...
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Hybrid drive (redirect from Hybrid RAM Disk)
storage medium such as solid-state drive (SSD) with a higher-capacity hard disk drive (HDD). The intent is adding some of the speed of SSDs to the cost-effective...
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boot medium, it is usual for the boot program to use some system RAM as a RAM disk for temporary file storage. As an example, any computer compatible...
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in RAM, i.e. a RAM disk with on-the-fly disk compression. The block device created with zram can then be used for swap or as general-purpose RAM disk. The...
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File system (redirect from Disk file systems)
hard disk drives (HDDs), solid-state drives (SSDs), magnetic tapes and optical discs. A portion of the computer main memory can be set up as a RAM disk that...
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computer with no hard disk, which needs to boot from a floppy disk, is to configure a ram disk. The COMMAND.COM file is copied to the ram disk during boot and...
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