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Even if you were to do this, it would not be recommended. USB drives/Hard Drives are extremely slow. Think about your USB Drive. It will transfer at a MAX of 60MBps. The ram in your computer based on your other question will run anywhere from 4200MBps to 5333MBps!

That is why when your computer is low on memory that it will use your Pagefile to allocate memory as Virtual Memory. Your hard drive light will go crazy and your computer will slow down greatly. It ran out of physical memory and in efforts to not crash, it will use your hard drive as virtual memory. Just think of how slow the computer is at that point and just think how horrible your VM will run if it is always using this RamDisk (see below) or virtual memory.

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RAM disk

To specifically answer your question if you still choose to go this route, RAMDisk is what you're looking for. It will create a Partition or File on your hard drive and fool the computer to see this as actual memory. Again, not idea. Very very very very very not ideal.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1086220/imdisk-open-source-ram-drive-with-no-size-limitations

Software can "partition" a portion of a computer's RAM, allowing it to act as a much faster hard drive that is called a RAM disk. A RAM disk loses the stored data when the computer is shut down, unless memory is arranged to have a standby battery source.

Even if you were to do this, it would not be recommended. USB drives/Hard Drives are extremely slow. Think about your USB Drive. It will transfer at a MAX of 60MBps. The ram in your computer based on your other question will run anywhere from 4200MBps to 5333MBps!

That is why when your computer is low on memory that it will use your Pagefile to allocate memory as Virtual Memory. Your hard drive light will go crazy and your computer will slow down greatly. It ran out of physical memory and in efforts to not crash, it will use your hard drive as virtual memory. Just think of how slow the computer is at that point and just think how horrible your VM will run if it is always using this RamDisk (see below) or virtual memory.

enter image description here

RAM disk

To specifically answer your question if you still choose to go this route, RAMDisk is what you're looking for. It will create a Partition or File on your hard drive and fool the computer to see this as actual memory. Again, not idea. Very very very very very not ideal.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1086220/imdisk-open-source-ram-drive-with-no-size-limitations

Software can "partition" a portion of a computer's RAM, allowing it to act as a much faster hard drive that is called a RAM disk. A RAM disk loses the stored data when the computer is shut down, unless memory is arranged to have a standby battery source.

Even if you were to do this, it would not be recommended. USB drives/Hard Drives are extremely slow. Think about your USB Drive. It will transfer at a MAX of 60MBps. The ram in your computer based on your other question will run anywhere from 4200MBps to 5333MBps!

That is why when your computer is low on memory that it will use your Pagefile to allocate memory as Virtual Memory. Your hard drive light will go crazy and your computer will slow down greatly. It ran out of physical memory and in efforts to not crash, it will use your hard drive as virtual memory. Just think of how slow the computer is at that point and just think how horrible your VM will run if it is always using this RamDisk (see below) or virtual memory.

enter image description here

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kobaltz
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Even if you were to do this, it would not be recommended. USB drives/Hard Drives are extremely slow. Think about your USB Drive. It will transfer at a MAX of 60MBps. The ram in your computer based on your other question will run anywhere from 4200MBps to 5333MBps!

That is why when your computer is low on memory that it will use your Pagefile to allocate memory as Virtual Memory. Your hard drive light will go crazy and your computer will slow down greatly. It ran out of physical memory and in efforts to not crash, it will use your hard drive as virtual memory. Just think of how slow the computer is at that point and just think how horrible your VM will run if it is always using this RamDisk (see below) or virtual memory.

enter image description here

RAM disk

To specifically answer your question if you still choose to go this route, RAMDisk is what you're looking for. It will create a Partition or File on your hard drive and fool the computer to see this as actual memory. Again, not idea. Very very very very very not ideal.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1086220/imdisk-open-source-ram-drive-with-no-size-limitations

Software can "partition" a portion of a computer's RAM, allowing it to act as a much faster hard drive that is called a RAM disk. A RAM disk loses the stored data when the computer is shut down, unless memory is arranged to have a standby battery source.