You don't have to designate any of the space on your memory expansion card for use as a RAM disk (and there's no reason to with newer applications because they will take advantage of the extra memory automatically). But experienced users, using older applications, may want to speed up access to applications and information by using the RAM disk. This option lets you specify the minimum and maximum amount of free RAM you want to set aside for use as a RAM disk. You change the minimum and maximum amount of RAM you want to reserve for use as a RAM disk in increments of 32K. The minimum amount can't exceed the maximum amount. If you try to raise the minimum above the maximum, the maximum will be automatically adjusted.

RAM disk settings don't take effect until you restart the computer by pressing Open-Apple-Control-Reset.

Note: Decreasing the maximum RAM disk size won't erase what's already stored on the RAM disk.

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