Can you install windows on the ram?

[SwegWasp]

Im just asking since some systems have up to terabytes of ram. Is it possible to install windows and other software on the ram? and what would happen?

 

 

[atxcyclist]

RAM drives are a thing, but RAM is "volatile", meaning that when the computer is powered-off the data in the RAM is wiped.

[Poet129]

3 minutes ago, SwegWasp said:

Im just asking since some systems have up to terabytes of ram. Is it possible to install windows and other software on the ram? and what would happen?

 

 

 

[Not_A_Spider]

The best you could do is emulate it off of a ram disk.

[George Vella]

2 hours ago, SwegWasp said:

Im just asking since some systems have up to terabytes of ram. Is it possible to install windows and other software on the ram? and what would happen?

 

There is some specialised hardware, but it'll be very hard to find any. But Good Luck!

[PeachGr]

I wonder if you could use an m.2 for ram instead, and I think Linus had a video about it

[Drama Lama]

there are Linux Distros that run just on ram but if you power the pc off everything is gone

[Curious Pineapple]

May try this for the hell of it. Windows VM in a ram disk.

[Required]

Yes its possible. Some people modified the Installer to run them .

For example:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BartPE

[Blue4130]

On 6/12/2020 at 2:30 PM, PeachGr said:

I wonder if you could use an m.2 for ram instead, and I think Linus had a video about it

Back in the day you could get "ram cards" that were basically pci cards with ram slots. Since m.2 is just Pci-e in a different form factor, it's theoretically possible. But... Those old pci cards went extinct for a reason. Slow. The latency introduced was not good for performance.