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...

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...

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...

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...

initramfs, a new model for initial RAM disks Almesberger, Werner; Lermen, Hans (2000). "Using the initial RAM disk (initrd)". Archived from the original...

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...

The Family Computer Disk System, commonly shortened to the Famicom Disk System, or just Disk System, is a peripheral for Nintendo's Family Computer home...

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...

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...

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...

recoverable RAM disk, which functions as a standard RAM disk but can maintain its contents on soft restart. It is commonly called the RAD disk after its...

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...

storage device. A similar construction is a RAM disk, which appears as a virtual disk drive and hosts a disk file system. Everything stored in tmpfs is...

ROM), ferroelectric RAM, most types of computer data storage devices (e.g. disk storage, hard disk drives, optical discs, floppy disks, and magnetic tape)...

The i-RAM was a PCI card-mounted, battery-backed RAM disk that behaved and was marketed as a solid-state storage device. It was produced by Gigabyte and...

the RAM disk software. The GEOS operating system had built in support for the REU as a RAM disk, as did the C128's version of CP/M, and some disk copy...

initial RAM disk, loaded into memory before transferring control to the Linux kernel. It passes to the kernel information about the RAM disk and its location...

be partitioned into application memory and a RAM disk, or an external 60 KB or 120 KB intelligent RAM disk module to be attached (64K and 128K internally...

"Virtual Hard Disk" or "Network Virtual Disk". This third approach makes it easier to use client OS than having a complete disk image in RAM or using a read-only...

device Logical disk (also known as vdisk), an array of two or more actual drives that cooperatively act like a single device RAM disk, which stores its...

computer products, including graphics processing units, random-access memory, RAM disk software, and solid-state drives, produced by Radeon Technologies Group...

on. RAM disk: A virtual hard drive, it acts like any other disk, and stores files and data in memory rather than on the hard drive. The RAM disk is dynamically...

floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of...

a perfect candidate for use with Apple's RAM disk to help increase battery life by accessing the hard disk less frequently, since the 100 was the only...

A hard disk to boot Linux stores the Master Boot Record (MBR), which contains the first-stage/primary bootloader in order to be loaded into RAM. IBM PC...

Internal RAM was 64K, of which a part could be reserved as RAM disk. An External RAM disk could be attached, creating a 120K RAM disk, leaving internal RAM as...

(secondary or tertiary storage), typically hard disk drives, optical disc drives, and other devices slower than RAM but non-volatile (retaining contents when...

can be expanded with up to 48 KB of RAM (in 16 KB increments), and up to four floppy disk drives and/or hard disk drives. Tandy/Radio Shack provided full-service...

floppy disk and uses about 600 KB of RAM, whereas System 7 uses well over one megabyte. It was some time before the average Mac shipped with enough RAM built-in...

Cards, a transflective backlit LCD and 2 MB of RAM (640 KB to DOS, 64 KB shadow, and 1-1344 KB for a RAM disk). The Poqet "Classic"'s LCD didn't have a backlight...