new to ram disk
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Because I have the budget for it now and I plan on learning what I can do with it.
So, what is the point of putting anything on a ramdisk when it will have to saved else where and re-loaded on each start up. In a previous post, I've been told that games should be on a HDD 7,200 rpm and only the OS and apps should be on a SSD. Will installing a game on the ramdisk do anything other than increase the install time? Eventually that time will come back around when I have to save to a different drive.
So, what is the point of putting anything on a ramdisk when it will have to saved else where and re-loaded on each start up. In a previous post, I've been told that games should be on a HDD 7,200 rpm and only the OS and apps should be on a SSD. Will installing a game on the ramdisk do anything other than increase the install time? Eventually that time will come back around when I have to save to a different drive.
That's not really a reason, but okay. I'm not judging you but it seems kind of shortsighted.
Here's the part where you tell me how it makes sense to your computing habits. There are a few use-cases like caching that benefit from a RAMdisk, but otherwise it's not very practical.
I don't think a 52GB 'disk' that is wiped every time you shut the computer down is terribly practical or a good use of money. As you've said you would need to have that data backed up elsewhere and put it back on the RAM disk each time you boot your machine up again. Just get 16GB RAM and be done with it. 
