is there any way to physically allocate ram for storage?

[grantcoren]

i have 16gb of ram and for audio needs i need to be able to access certain audio files at faster than ssd read speads is there any way to give 5 gb a physical memory location i know i would have to dump it to the ram every time i turn on and off my computer but in essence i was wondering if i could somehow use ram as a storage device?

 

[Pyree]

How fast do you need?

 

[Ironsounds]

Hello... in old days of DOS you would create a RAMDISK, I believe you still can... it is simple software that turns some of your Ram into a physical disk to Windows.

 

[USAFRet]

A RAM drive (or RAM disk) is what you're looking for:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_drive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_RAM_drive_software

 

[Tradesman1]

If you want to try, use DataRAM's RAMDisk, they have a free version - make a RAM drive up to 4GB

http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk