Apple has discovered a serious issue affecting 2012 MacBook Air flash storage drives which could result in data loss. Owners of the mid-2012 Air are encouraged to run a firmware update to fix the issue, and Apple has promised free replacements for those with affected drives.
RAM Disks, as the name indicates, are logical storage volumes created using a computer’s memory (RAM) instead of a traditional hard drive or solid state drive. The benefits are easy to understand: RAM operates at speeds far beyond current hard drive technology. But there’s also a major negative: data stored in RAM is not persistent, meaning that it is erased when the RAM loses power due to a reboot, shutdown, or power loss. Despite this drawback, there are still several…