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I just bought: a Samsung 860 EVO 250GB 2.5" SSD for my primary drive, and I have a Samsung 850 EVO mSATA 120GB card in the slot, along with a 750GB Hitachi 7200 rpm drive in the UltraBay too, no need for an internal optical drive and yes it's a ThinkPad T420s hence the UltraBay reference). The RAMdisk is set to mirror it's contents to an image file on my SSD every 10 minutes but in almost a year of this setup I've never had one issue of any kind, never lost one byte of data.
#FANCYCACHE FOR GAMING PORTABLE#
I have a 4GB RAMdisk set up (using that ImDisk Toolkit, as I have 16GB of RAM in my laptop now), and I have Firefox Portable, FirefoċSR Portable, Chrome Portable, Brave Portable, and a half dozen other portable apps that run directly from the RAMdisk itself.
#FANCYCACHE FOR GAMING SOFTWARE#
You can use portable applications and software too, that's what I do. Since you said you have an SATA II based machine I'm going to presume it's a much older computer overall, so every little boost to your system performance in terms of the storage media is going to make a huge difference overall. You can also, if you're interested, move the browser caches to the RAMdisk as well (I always use R: for the drive letter and just call it RAMdisk, I also use NTFS compression on it since it's so fast and in today's world it can't hurt, in some instances it can almost double the effective throughput of even the RAMdisk which is typically 15GB/s or more). Yes, SSDs are fast, but why bother doing thousands of cell writes for no good reason, that's why RAM exists, so make use of it since you've got so much of it to spare. The secondary benefit: because temp files are constantly being created and deleted (they should be) it alleviates the need to add write cycles aka PE cycles to the SSD if you have one. The primary benefit to this: since RAM is so hella fast, even the fastest NVMe SSDs pale in comparison and so do the Optane drives too, anything related to making temp files - when applications are installed, when there's processing being done, etc - will have zero storage bottleneck to have to deal with. Since TMP/TEMP files are obviously temporary by nature, even if the power were suddenly cut you wouldn't be losing anything at all really. In the options of that program is a setting that will allow you to move all your TMP/TEMP environment variable activities - every time a temporary file of any kind is created by and for the OS or applications - to the RAMdisk. Best course of action: with 24GB of RAM, set up a 4-8GB RAMdisk using this tool (it's incredibly tiny and incredibly useful, can even be used to mount ISOs if you want, very awesome and barely 600KB in size which is the epitome of tight efficient code):