SSD and Ramdisk - clarification about disc usage

Hi,

I'm evaluating Superspeed Ramdisk and I have a question that I cant google. I have set for example my browser temp files on the Ramdisk. However to be usable I also need Ramdisk to write the disk content on restart etc. I cant loose all cookies etc just because the laptop restarts.

My reason for using the Ramdisk in the first place is because I want to minimize the heavy writing on my new SSD. But then does it really matter if the Ramdisk needs to save upon restart anyways? I mean eventually all files are saved to disk so it seems. Or perhaps does it still make sense since the Ramdisk probably writes the disk content as one file and not 1000.

Do you know what I mean? Basically - since I require the persistance of the temporary files, does it still make sense to use a Ramdisk?

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The difference would be lots of random writes while your using ur pc could cause stutters and random writes in general will lower the performance of the drive when it reaches steady state. saving the ramdisk will be one sequential write at a time that occurs when you don't need performance from your pc. get it? me personally i dont' think i would mind the temp files wiping every time power is shut off anyway...

 

tempfiles and cookies are not the same.

in firefox, i've actually configured my system to not store any temp data on disk. why should it? only made hassle with some pages as it never updated to the actual data.

 

Yeah i gotta find that setting and eliminate my temp files for ie...

 

just for info. i've moved my temp files from ie to a ram-disk that doesn't save long ago on the work pc. i never lost any cookie or anything else. so, don't bother about it it. all your data is save, only temp data gets lost.

 

Thanks all. I get the general idea - I just needed some extra input. In the end I will use the Ramdisk for more than just IE temp files. And I dont care about performance here - at all. My only concern is that I dont want to shorten my SSD lifetime having all those writes. And all reviews and guides says to put temp files on a Ram disk. So I did. But then my concern is that IF I choose to serialize the Ramdisk content anyways - I will loose the lifetime gain I'm seeking.

So - can I assume from your replies that the lifetime of my SSD isnt shorten as much when writing the Ramdisk content as it would be if there were no Ramdisk?

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I'll go as far to say it affects the life of the drive at all it probably won't shorten it... What it should do is help with performance

 

and if you have a good ssd it should not change it's performance, eighter.

your ssd will last long enough. longer than your notebook by a big chance anyways. and if not, it will not be because of the writes, but some other defect that may or may not happen on any hw.

 

There are other ramdisks that do save contents on shutdown and load them on boot, but if running a 32 bit OK, the RAM will come from the 3.5 GB of space usuable by most systems. If you assign more than 512MB for ramdisk, you may be better off going 64 bit.

 

Well I have purchased Superspeed Ramdisk+ which can use memory above 3.5Gb in a 32 bit system.

 

The Superspeed Ramdisk does only save the content on shutdown and loads it on boot.

So while you browse and work with your computer the Ramdisk does not touch your HDD.

And if you use sleep mode then you will do a reboot maybe once every week. So only once every week gets the content, as one large image file, saved on the SSD.

Without the Ramdisk and the temp internet cache on thousand little files get saved and deleted per day, which can harm a SSD, instead of one larger file once every week or once each day if you pefer to shutdown your PC daily.