Hard Drive for Ram

jammesz

jammesz

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Just to make it clear im not talking about virtual ram.

What i want to know is that is it possible to use a hard drive for ram?
I know that the hard drive doesnt wipe its memory but you can just have a program do that at shutdown or startup.
And if it is possible how would i go around to doing that?

any help is much apreciated :)

( if this does work it would be so cool to have 350GB of RAM!! )
 
I'm not quite sure what you mean because virtual ram/a swap file IS the hard drive being used as RAM. But regardless, as Trizoy said, it's be slow, as in almost unusable if you used more "hard drive RAM" than physical ram...
 
Yeah i was thinking about that. but im sure there is a way to fix it though?

any ways i still would like to know.
 
The_Other_One said:
I'm not quite sure what you mean because virtual ram/a swap file IS the hard drive being used as RAM. But regardless, as Trizoy said, it's be slow, as in almost unusable if you used more "hard drive RAM" than physical ram...
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Well what im talking about isnt quite like virtual memory as I was thinking of some how connecting the hard drive to the memory slots. i would probebly hire some computer company to make the custom connections.
 
What? How is that different. If it was even possible(which it isn't due to totally different interfaces and methods of data access and storage) you would still be limited to the HD's overall speed. If hard drives WERE fast enough to use as RAM, wouldn't you think they'd just do without it? :P
 
The_Other_One said:
What? How is that different. If it was even possible(which it isn't due to totally different interfaces and methods of data access and storage) you would still be limited to the HD's overall speed. If hard drives WERE fast enough to use as RAM, wouldn't you think they'd just do without it? :P
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dunno.
seemed different at the time.

We'll thanks for answering my question.

PS. I asked these questions because my computer teacher at high school said it was posible. I didnt believe him and asked here and now i think he misunderstood my question.
 
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Not to mention that hard drives are more than 100x slower than RAM...

Virtual memory (on the hard drive) IS basically what you are talking about.

If your teacher was serious, and thinks it is possible, or practical, tell him he's an idiot.
 
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