   Is this feasible?
  Would it be possible to emulate a partition of a harddrive to act as RAM data for people who want to upgrade their RAM size without going through the hassle of purchasing and installing new RAM? I'm not talking about page files, I am talking about actually using hard disk space as a RAM storage unit. I doubt if it is possible now but, using the right implementation, would it work or are the hard ware issues set up so that the data has to go through the RAM bus in order to actually work?   
  thats virtual memory, right?   ;  The only problem with something like this (I think) is the slowness of hdds.   ;  Hard drive access is much slower than RAM, so no. Unless you have a really old CPU but lots of disk space.   ;Quote:Original post by tHiSiSbObThe only problem with something like this (I think) is the slowness of hdds.Hm... You're probably right, I didn't think about that. I did however think that because the data would need to travel further to the HDD that the bus speed would be signifigantly slower. *sigh* If it would actually work with a decent speed it would be pretty cool though.   ;  The fastest HDD you'd find in the computer of someone who doesn't want to go through the hassle of upgrading RAM will transfer data at about 100 megs per second. As a comparison, modern RAM can transfer about 3 GIGS per second.Besides, all modern OSes already do that, it's called paging.   