I can tell you that sticks do NOT work, they are way way slower then raptors, don't be confused with published fast access times, the horrible write times makes everything a joke. Also although the access times are faster then raptors (I have 6 raptors), its the sequential read time (after the head has landed) transfer rate that is kinda more important if you are moving larger chucks of data.

Not sure about a ram drive though. I can't think of any off the top of my head reason why it won't work assuming you can see the drive in windows. Hummm this matter needs some looking into.

Oh ok if you have 16G in your machine you should use a 64 bit operating system and you will get better effect then having a ram drive ...

The guy "starbuck" claims to be using the unseen ram in this thread (read from the last post backwards the first pages are usless):

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/cont...pic/7663/?o=60