This really has nothing to do with Access.

I'd suggest asking this in a newsgroup related to whatever operating system
you're using.

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
http://I.Am/DougSteele
(no e-mails, please!)


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you can buy some pretty high-end ram-drive systems.. for real databases
like 'SQL Server'

I've got a friend that spent a couple hundred grand on some 'ram
drives' for SQL Server

-Aaron


Douglas J. Steele wrote:
> This really has nothing to do with Access.
>
> I'd suggest asking this in a newsgroup related to whatever operating system
> you're using.
>
> --
> Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
> http://I.Am/DougSteele
> (no e-mails, please!)
>
>
> "Anthony" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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While it's not relevant to this newsgroup, I'll reply thus:

Why would you *want* to create a RAM drive? The amount of memory
used up by a dedicated RAM drive would be more efficiently allocated
by the OS's virtual memory manager and its disk caching routines.
This has been the case with Windows since about 1993 (with the
introduction of 32-bit disk access in Windows for Workgroups and
then Windows 3.11).

A RAM drive is likely to make things run *more* slowly.

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David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/

I beg to differ.

Large insurance company on the cutting edge wouldn't make that mistake

-Aaron



David W. Fenton wrote:
> While it's not relevant to this newsgroup, I'll reply thus:
>
> Why would you *want* to create a RAM drive? The amount of memory
> used up by a dedicated RAM drive would be more efficiently allocated
> by the OS's virtual memory manager and its disk caching routines.
> This has been the case with Windows since about 1993 (with the
> introduction of 32-bit disk access in Windows for Workgroups and
> then Windows 3.11).
>
> A RAM drive is likely to make things run *more* slowly.
>
> --
> David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
> usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/