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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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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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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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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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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Commodore REU (redirect from RAM Expansion Unit)
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...
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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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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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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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the logical file system layer, a RAM disk is implemented at the physical file system layer. In other words, a RAM disk is a virtual block device with a...
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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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purchasing games on traditional RAM cartridges. Nintendo also offered similar disk rewriting services by mail. The Disk System was designed to enhance...
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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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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...
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Computer data storage (redirect from Data disk)
(secondary or tertiary storage), typically hard disk drives, optical disc drives, and other devices slower than RAM but non-volatile (retaining contents when...
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Epson PX-8 Geneva (redirect from PF-10 (disk drive))
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...
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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...
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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...
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Non-volatile memory (redirect from Parameter RAM)
ROM), ferroelectric RAM, most types of computer data storage devices (e.g. disk storage, hard disk drives, optical discs, floppy disks, and magnetic tape)...
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computer products, including graphics processing units, random-access memory, RAM disk software, and solid-state drives, produced by Radeon Technologies Group...
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CrystalDiskMark is an open source disk drive benchmark tool for Microsoft Windows from Crystal Dew World. Based on Microsoft's MIT-licensed Diskspd tool...
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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...
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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...
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Facit DTC. The ABC 802 is a compact version with 64 KB RAM where 32 KB is used as a RAM disk. The main board is integrated with a 9" CRT screen and has...
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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...
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"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...
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17xx-series REU RAM expansion cartridges. Unlike the REU, the RAMLink is externally powered and designed from the ground-up to act as a RAM disk. Allows up...
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Apple IIGS (section Standard RAM increased to 512 KB)
also has a memory expansion slot for up to 8 MB of RAM. The IIGS has ports for external floppy disk drives, two serial ports for devices such as printers...
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2.6 kernel and later offer /dev/shm as shared memory in the form of a RAM disk, more specifically as a world-writable directory (a directory in which...
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allows restoring a previously created disk image. Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool: Analyses the computer memory (RAM) for defects (not available on Windows...
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