Some not even support Windows Vista, Windows 7 or later. However, most of these RAMdisk drivers either is not free, or limit in its functionality especially on the size on RAM-disk. There are plenty of RAM-disk driver and software available, such as RamDisk9xME, RAMDiskXP, RAMDiskSE and RAMDiskVE from Cenatek (now becomes RAMDisk Extreme!, RAMDisk Pro and RAMDisk from Dataram), RamDisk and RamDisk Plus from SuperSpeed, RAMDisk Enterprise Lite, RAMDisk Enterprise Full and free version from WinRamTech, Ramdisk based on Microsoft Ramdisk below from QSoft (no longer available) and Ramdisk.sys driver for Windows 2000 from Microsoft published under KB257405. From privacy point of view, ramdisk is also a working drive for decrypted version of encrypted document, as all trace of the data will be wiped and deleted once power off. With these benefits and limit, RAMdisk can be used to store frequently accessed yet less important temporary data to speed up the system performance, such as swap space for virtual memory, temporary files used for programs such as Internet Explorer, BT client, P2P eMule, compression utility, translation software and etc, frequently accessed data from a database or used to hold uncompressed programs for short periods. Contents in RAMdisk is stored in computer RAM, which will be lost when the power of computer is switched off. RAMdisk has one obvious downside, that it’s volatile and not solid state.

As there is no mechanical moving parts involved, there won’t be question of wear and tear too. RAMisk or RAM-Disk (also known as RAM drive) is a virtual hard drive based on software abstraction that treats a segment of random access memory (RAM) as secondary storage which is similar to hard disks, except with advantage that RAMdisk is a lot faster and access time is greatly improved.

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