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A Ramdisk can perfectly be used to store :
- web content of web servers
- temporary index files and tables of database servers
- temporary files ( TEMP and TMP environment variable ) and "Temporary Internet Files"
- the scratch disk for Adobe (R) Photoshop (R)
- games and programs in general (1), reloading parts and data occurs many times faster
- MPEG audio ( MP3 ) and video capture / editing
- creation and playback of slide shows
- all kinds of data that may be lost ( or MUST be lost for security reasons ) at shutdown


Most users use RAMDisk to speed up applications like:
• Databases
• Internet Explorer cache for faster web surfing
• Audio and Video editing
• CAD programs
• Software compilers
• Games
• SETI processing
• TEMP files
• Swap space
• Web server cache
• Custom applications with high I/O, high bandwidth, or high security requirements