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Google Docs Adds Cloud Storage

January 13th, 2010 No Comments

Google Docs today expanded the functionality of the service by offering 1GB of cloud storage for any type of file you want to upload. The only restrictions seem to be the 1GB cap on storage (you can buy more at $0.25 USD / GB) and the limit of 250MB per individual file. Though it doesn’t [...]

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RAM Disks – Storing Files in Memory

March 21st, 2009 1 Comment

Back in ye olde days of DOS Microsoft included a utility with the system called RAMDRIVE.SYS.  This utility allowed you to carve off a few kilobytes of your system’s precious RAM to use as a pseudo hard drive that was highly effective for reading and writing large volumes of data to and from a drive [...]

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