RobJenks

I have 16 Gb RAM that is always under utilized.
So I have assigned 6 Gb to Ramdisk.
What have I done with it?
Google chrome Browser Cache
Mozilla Firefox application runs from Ramdisk
TMP and TEMP folders
Swapfile
Pagefile
Prefetch

Benefits are significant speed opening apps and reduction in Read /write to HD or SSD
Downside is RAM is volatile so start up is slower as the Ramdisk has to be re-installed at each start up.
To get over this my laptop is always in sleep mode .

Henrik

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Hmm, feels like a decent SSD would give most of the benefits, without any of the downsides. The Samsung Evo for example is about 3 years old now (from memory, might be even older in smaller capacities), and it achieves almost 100k random iops, which is completely insane, if you think about it https://storagereview.com/samsung_86...ssd_review_1tb

Tidgy

I'd not bother with virtual drives like that. As Henrik says, ssd's are cheap enough now and will see much more of a performance gain. tbh for what your doing 16gb is rather pointless as it wont be your bottleneck.

For a desktop m.2 nvme as windows drive (samsung 970 500GB is plenty), SSD as main program drive (Samsung 860 1TB) , spinny for storage up to the Volume you need. (my setup and balances performance, with storage space with budget)

For Laptop as above, 860 EVO 1TB SSD. If you need more storage than that then i would look at an external plug in drive.

JackClark

I thought this was a thread from the 90's brought to the top.

Tidgy

some people dont spend £5000 on a laptop every year to keep up with the joneses lol

JackClark

My MacBook - daily driver - is 10 years old. Still awesome. It was £2500 back then

Tidgy

crikey, have they really jacked the price up that much now a days

JackClark

The equivalent machine is £2,700.

Tidgy

bloody expsnive for a bit of surfing lol

JackClark

Bloody cheap for the amount of work we've done.

Tidgy

£500 laptop would do just as well lol

JackClark

For you and a bit of web browsing quite likely, I have a £500 PC laptop and it's fine for that.