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RAM is one of the most integral hardware parts in hardware when it comes to computers, mobile devices, and even small IoT devices. With its universal presence in the latest technology, RAM is often ...

Q: I seem to remember an article you wrote on how to designate a hard drive as virtual memory as a substitute for RAM. I wish to add a small hard drive as a slave to my C: drive and use it as virtual ...

Windows uses pagefiles to increase the availability of active applications, rather than letting them idle. If the page file size is low, you will get a message stating “Your system is low on virtual ...

OPPO is adding virtual RAM support to Reno 5 series phones. The approach temporarily turns up to 7GB of storage into temporary memory when your physical RAM runs low. Oppo’s sibling brand vivo uses ...

Memory can be a tricky term in the computer world. There is random access memory (RAM), and hard drive space is often described as memory. To make things a little more confusing, the process of using ...

Android’s virtual RAM feature—called RAM Plus on Samsung, Extended RAM on vivo, or Memory Extension on Xiaomi—has sparked debate for years, with many users believing it occupies internal storage. A ...

Virtual RAM is no longer foreign to the world of smartphones. While the feature has been long in action for PCs, it’s only recently that we are seeing its widespread use on smartphones. Phone ...

If you’ve ever wished that you could emulate the performance of a solid-state drive without installing a new piece of hardware, consider creating a new virtual hard drive on your PC that runs purely ...

As I've noted in the two previous installments in this series, Windows 10's Hyper-V platform is the ideal way to test-drive a new feature update before trusting it to production hardware. If you've ...

Virtual Memory or Page File is a type of memory that allows Windows to use part of the storage space a RAM, to improve the overall performance or when there is a need for extra memory. While Windows ...