Talk:RAM drive

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I think "RAM-disk" seems to be the most widely used name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frap (talk • contribs) 2006-01-27
: Actually, "ram drive" has more hits on Google than "ram disk", "ramdisk" and "ram-disk", moreover "disk" is an improper name as it doesn't contain any disk. ekerazha (talk) 11:14, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Renaming article to ram drive is appropriate but claiming "ram drive" is improper is an original research. On Amiga Workbench it is always ram disk. I can search Workbench manuals for a reference. Xorxos (talk) 17:29, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  I should have some Amiga Workbench manuals somewhere... still it's an improper name. It could be used by everybody, still it would be objectively wrong as ram doesn't contain any disk, it's just a wrong name borrowed from the fact that a ram drive is showed to the end user as something that can be used as a sort of hard disk drive. However this wrong name is often used, so I kept it as secondary name in the article. ekerazha (talk) 10:53, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

text: I removed the words "incorrectly referred to as" from "RAM disk" the article, since nobody has provided a reliable source for the claim.  (And, for that matter, both terms have been in use for decades.)  I also added the  template to the top of this section. --Closeapple (talk) 00:03, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks! Noah Slater (talk) 19:13, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: The Article and all the links seem very much Linux-centric. I don't have a problem with that, (although I came here specifically to learn about the current status of Ramdisks in Windows, so I think it would be nice to include that also) but it should be made clear in the article that most of that which is said applies only to a certain kind of OS.--BjKa 09:53, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Linux / Windows

message: This article contains no references to sources... Sources showing appropriate info needs to be added. 71.178.208.209 (talk) 01:12, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources? 

message: The following paragraph was moved from the SSD article because it gets into more detail than is covered for related technologies. There were no sources stated, so they should be checked before being considered as added into the RAM disk article here (likely in the historical section).
:RAM "disks" were popular as boot media in the 1980s when hard drives were expensive, floppy drives were slow, and a few systems, such as the Amiga series, the Apple IIgs, and later the Macintosh Portable, supported such booting. At the cost of some main memory, the system could be soft-rebooted and be back in the operating system in mere seconds instead of minutes. Some systems were battery-backed so contents could persist when the system was shut down.
Music Sorter (talk) 22:36, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  RAM Disk paragraph moved from SSD article 

message: Should we be including software at the end of the article? Would any non-biased readers find it advantageous to have direct links to known freeware, seeing as the use of a RAMDisk could provide the user with more knowledge of the subject? --Wmw71190 (talk) 13:12, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: yes 218.214.18.240 (talk) 09:31, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Anyone else? I'm going to place the software back on there if no one else seems to have a problem with it..--Wmw71190 (talk) 15:24, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, this would be useful.  Pasado (talk) 05:46, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Software

message: So, one major use of RAM drives today is for servers for VPN's to better protect privacy. In theory, unlike a conventional hard drive, deleted files on a RAM drive shouldn't be recoverable. This use for VPN servers is probably their most common use today. CessnaMan1989 (talk) 16:43, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relevance to VPN's 

message: There are many current and relatively recent issues with implementing modern RAM drives. One issue is that many modern operating systems, especially Windows, use a hybrid-boot feature, which, long story short, sometimes results in temporary storage from a previous session actually persisting into the next session once the computer is turned back on. This has effected how RAM drives are implemented now. 
Another, somewhat related issue, issue that most functional RAM drives today are actually sections of RAM that are partitioned by software such as SoftPerfect to be virtual disks or functional RAM drives, which make the implementation entirely dependent of the software used. Plus, some computer architectures that come from FPGA's actually use partitioned portions of hard disk to be the RAM drive, which I admit is unusual, but it does exist. What sort of sources should I cite to include these kinds of issues in the article? CessnaMan1989 (talk) 16:53, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Implementation Issues