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Bebars
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I'm not sure if this is a joke, a challenge, or you are asking for advice, so I'm going to assume the latter.

 

Ram can never be used as a boot drive because when it loses power, all the data in it is wiped, and when you are booting up a computer from a no power state...hopefully you see the obvious conundrum here....

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2 hours ago, Bebars said:

Try to use ram as a boot drive 

 

2 hours ago, rev_dude said:

I'm not sure if this is a joke, a challenge, or you are asking for advice, so I'm going to assume the latter.

 

Ram can never be used as a boot drive because when it loses power, all the data in it is wiped, and when you are booting up a computer from a no power state...hopefully you see the obvious conundrum here....

 

Something like this DOES kind of exist.

http://www.radeonramdisk.com/software_downloads.php

 

Since DRAM is voltatile, it is not something to do permanently, but best to play around with -- especially that PCI-E M.2 NVMe drives exist now.

 

 

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