How do I make a RAM drive?

[Anthony]

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

This really has nothing to do with Access.

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

 

[dbahooker]

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

 

[David W. Fenton]

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.

 

[aaron.kempf]

I beg to differ.

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

-Aaron