The data gets saved back to the HD, then reloaded when windows loads at the typical slow hard drive speed. This doesn't have any real benefit for almost any user thanks to today's optimizations. Look up pre fetching, or open windows pre fetch folder and see for yourself all the programs being loaded into ram every boot-up. In fact, windows -automatically- caches many of the small programs you frequently use to ram for faster loading etc without any intervention required on the users part whatsoever, meaning many of the programs you ALREADY use are ALREADY sitting on a "ramdisk" ready to use right now (windows kicks those things to ram as it boots up). Almost any program or application you run already loads itself INTO ram, so once it's open you are already taking advantage of this "super fast" medium (the initial load takes longer, subsequent loads are much quicker). Namely, as ram capacities bulged massively computer programmers started utilizing ram by default. Back in the day lots of us used ramdisks to improve performance all the time. I'm surprised they act like this is big new technology.
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