There's been a fair bit of discussion of the merits of enterprise hard disks and SSD's for multiboxing and it got me thinking. What's the one thing that's faster still than an SSD?

System RAM. How about creating a ramdisk, copying the WoW install into that, along with symlinked copies, and running it from there?

With Vista 64, systems with 16GB of RAM are not impossible, so half of that could be allocated as a ramdisk (WoW+BC seems to take up about 8GB of disk space). At bootup, the WoW installation can be copied from disk to ramdisk and run from there with extremely low latency on file accesses. True, that copying process would be a slight pain each time you start Windows, but it shouldn't take more than a minute on the sort of PC's we run. At todays memory prices, I expect I could upgrade an 8GB system to 16GB for less than the cost of a WD Raptor.

The question is, how can a ramdisk be set up in Vista? Good old ramdrive.sys disappeared years ago and wasn't replaced. There are some third party ramdisk offerings but I have no idea how good they are.

Does anyone have a suitably large amount of memory to give this a try?