Ramdisk to reduce writes on SSD?

Ramdisk: "Ramdisk or RAM-Disk is a virtual hard drive based on software abstraction that treats a segment of random access memory (RAM) as secondary storage which is similar to hard disks, except with advantage that ramdisk is a lot faster and access time is greatly improved"

Benefits should include:

- Speed up Internet page load times
- Control what files and programs are stored into memory (loaded at boot time)
- Create temporary disks for added security
- Speed up disk-to-disk activities such as video encryption and audio ripping
- Accelerate databases
- Reduce compile times

Apart from the above, it might be a powerfull way to reduce writes on your SSD by moving all TEMP files to the Ramdisk(or so they say)

Any comments on using a Ramdisk?

Dataram ramdrive: RAMDisk - Software - Server Memory Products & Services - Dataram

 

My opinion: not necessary. Modern SSDs will handle writes fine. And I don't like installing additional software when it's not really necessary.

Ps. Firefox has an inbuilt option where you can cache files to RAM. No additional software needed.

 

not needed, not giving you any gain. only gives you extra work. useless.

you might save some minutes of your ssds lifetime. which doesn't matter over the years it runs.

and you won't notice your internet cache to be faster, too.

 

Under "normal" usage (whatever that is) an SSD will probably outlast your computer. Well, that is unless you are the type that just upgraded from that ancient notebook with a 1.3GHz Banias (or better yet a 1.6GHz Pentium 4m) and hope your new notebook lasts as long.

 

I'm using a RAM disk in Windows and in Linux and find it to be great and gives a peace of mind knowing that garbage that gets put there, cache, temp files, etc. all get wiped out when I reboot.

 

cache's are NOT garbage. they are there to ENHANCE performance, even after a reboot. that's their purpose, and you kill that purpose, slowing down your system needlessly after a reboot.

 

his purpose is to NOT extend the cache across reboot, most likely for 'security' reasons(whether that is paranoid is another issue).

 

he called it garbage, showing he does not understand what it's good for.

and if he considers rebooting a security feature, he failed anyways. same as if he considers his own system a security risk for himself.

 

RamDisk for SSD? Only if you like hard ways I told about this possibility to 1 guy who thought about moving Temp directory, but I told him that benefits are not big while it gives headache. But you still can try.

The better way is to use RAMDisk for paging file to reduce writes on SSD.

 

ramdisk reduces your ram increases your pagefile activity and then puts it into ramdisk. better to not use a ramdisk in the first place to not cause paging.

and that, again, does not result in a noticable impact on writes, so it's not needed to do that either.

all just premature optimisation. useless.