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i know RAM is temporary and when your pc shuts down all the data goes, but if you had enough like 64 GB of it, could you use it as storage for your PC?
my college teacher thinks im dumb because i said you can, but i have seen people's computers with in the description they say, they use RAM for there OS or files? please help!
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-jack
my college teacher thinks im dumb because i said you can, but i have seen people's computers with in the description they say, they use RAM for there OS or files? please help!
thanks
-jack
I always found it weird people using RAM Disks to hold their page file. The thing is literally where data is is dumped if the RAM overflows or stagnates, if you eliminate it entirely (or limit it to some tiny size) you would force the data to sit in the RAM without going to the trouble of making the RAM Disk.
bomcool
September 28, 2014 2:38:16 PM
Delroy Monjo
September 28, 2014 2:37:15 PM
Permanent storage, no.
You can use some of it as a RAMDisk. A portion of RAM is set aside, and appears to the OS as a hard drive. A really fast hard drive.
When you turn the PC off, whatever is there is gone. But there are some RAMDisk applications that will write that data back to the hard drive upon shut down. Then when you turn it back on, it retrieves that and writes back to that section of RAM.
You can use some of it as a RAMDisk. A portion of RAM is set aside, and appears to the OS as a hard drive. A really fast hard drive.
When you turn the PC off, whatever is there is gone. But there are some RAMDisk applications that will write that data back to the hard drive upon shut down. Then when you turn it back on, it retrieves that and writes back to that section of RAM.
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