Hey timduncan,
if you like to show your associacion to some company you may add it to your signature. Then it will be shown below all your posts.
And if its using memory, its working faster than writing all changes to HDD. Therefor, in general, using ram can be faster than writing to disk.
yours,
knumsi
Ps: The thread is pretty old - and resolved. Please use a new thread for questions =)