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Cyran said:

JEMC said:

I read people talking about RAM disks many years ago, before even SATA SSDs launched, but I've never known someone that had actually done it.

I'm going to guess that it's no longer worth it nowadays thanks to the NVMe drives we have.

I don't bother anymore as SSD durability is plenty for my uses these days but when I first started using a SSD, I would use a Ramdisk for all my temp folders, cookies, and page file (because windows can be dumb and complain when page files disabled even through I had more then enough ram to not need it).  The thinking at the time was preventing all these tiny writes/reads to/from the SSD that would reduce it life span.  Sata SSD's was expensive back when I did that and there was still a lot of concern about how long a SSD could last.

As for performance, I think most software fairly good a caching important stuff to ram if it available anyway so not sure there a huge performance increase using a ram disk that would be worth the trouble of setting it up and maintaining.

Interesting. When I read about it was for the speed and responsiveness that a RAM drive gave over the slow mechanical drives or even the fast Velociraptors.

Makes sense to use A RAM disk to save read/writes on SSDs back then, even if now we use drives that have a fraction of the endurance and are ok with it. Sometimes it's weird how things change.

Thanks for sharing.