Virtual drive

A basic drive in accretion is a accessory that to the operating arrangement appears to be an accustomed concrete deejay drive, with disc images commissioned for disc account accouterments through the use ofcomputer application alleged a deejay emulator. It may additionally be termed an cyberbanking disk, RAM disk, emulated disk, e-disk, pseudo-drive, cool drive, hyperdrive or anamnesis disk.

Enhancement

Using deejay images in a basic drive allows users to about-face abstracts amid technologies, for archetype from CD optical drive to adamantine deejay drive. This may accommodate advantages such as acceleration and babble (hard deejay drives are about four or bristles times faster than optical drives,3 and additionally quieter). In accession it may abate ability consumption, back it may acquiesce aloof one accessory (a adamantine disk) to be acclimated instead of two (hard deejay additional optical drive).

Some audiophiles altercate that music played from a adamantine drive is above to the aforementioned music played anon from CD,45 due for archetype to lower abstracts absurdity rates.

Virtual drives may additionally be acclimated as allotment of appetite of an absolute apparatus (a basic machine)

Software distribution

After the advance of broadband, CD and DVD images became a accepted average for Linux distributions.1 Applications for Mac OS X are generally delivered online as an Apple Deejay Image absolute a book arrangement that includes the application, affidavit for the application, and so on. Online abstracts and bootable accretion CD images are provided for barter of assertive barteringcomputer application companies.

Disk images may additionally be acclimated to distributecomputer application beyond a aggregation network, or for portability (many CD/DVD images can be stored on a adamantine deejay drive). Deejay images may additionally be bare to transfercomputer application to machines after a accordant concrete deejay drive

Security

Virtual adamantine disks are best frequently acclimated in on the fly deejay encryption ("OTFE")computer application such as FreeOTFE and TrueCrypt, area an encrypted "image" of a deejay is stored on the PC. When you access the disk's password, the deejay angel is "mounted", and fabricated accessible as a fresh drive letter on your PC. Files accounting to this basic drive are accounting to the encrypted image, and never stored in cleartext.

The action of authoritative such an encrypted deejay accessible for use is alleged "mounting", the action of removing it is alleged "dismounting" or "unmounting