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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
With 8GB RAM, I have enough to play a bit. I found a 64 bit ramdisk driver that works in Win7, and there's a 1GB ramdisk seen as Z: with an NTFS filesystem. I'm set up to have Firefox's browser cache and profile on the ramdisk. A startup script loads the FF profile to the ramdisk from a zip archive on the hard drive, A shutdown script zips it back to catch profile changes made in that session. (I have fast broadband and don't bother preserving cache.)
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Why on earth would you do this? The only reason I can think about is to prevent others from looking into the profile, assuming you store it into an archive that has a password. I think Firefox won't be much faster running from a RAM-drive than when running from an SSD. I wouldn't even be surprised if Firefox just reads and caches its profile in RAM on its own.
The only thing I'd use RAM-drives for are thousands and thousands of small temporary files that don't need to be saved. Maybe I should try and set up one for Calibre's Edit Book functionality, as it spits out a lot of small files when opening a book.