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A ramdisk can perfectly be used to store :
- web content of web servers.
- temporary index files and tables of database servers ( MS-SQL-Server , MySQL , ...).
- temporary files ( TEMP and TMP environment variable ) and "Temporary Internet Files".
- the scratch disk for Adobe (R) Photoshop (R).
- games and installed programs (1). The startup times of programs may decrease drastically !
- audio and video playback / capture / editing.
- creation and playback of slide shows.
- the printer spool folder.
- data that has to be written to CD , to prevent underrun during the burn process.
- as storage of the "ReadyBoost" cache on Vista.
- all kinds of data that may be lost ( or MUST be lost for security reasons ) at shutdown.
- Hyper-V and VMWare virtualisation files ( .vhd / .vmdk ).
(1) The software may be installed directly to the ramdisk , or an existing installation may be remapped using a "junction" ( with means of , for example , linkd.exe ) to a copy on the ramdisk. In both cases , the content of the ramdisk must reload automatically at boot time from an image file , or by means of a backup program.
These are only a few examples. There will certainly be many more tasks for which a ramdisk can be used, depending on people's "inventivity" . |
