RAM disk

Summary

• A RAM-Disk, Ramdisk or Ramdrive is a virtual solid state disk that uses a segment of active computer memory, RAM, as secondary storage, a role typically filled by hard drives. Access times are greatly improved, because RAM is approximately a thousand times faster than hard drives.

Soundex: R532 ( R5 D2 )

Metaphone: RMTSK

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