I had 2MB of RAM in my A500 and I set it up to use a 512K RAMdisk that it would boot from without issues, was some awesome stuff to see and damned sure faster than the floppies. Seriously, you could set it up so it booted from RAM after a warm reboot (cold meaning a full system reset, warm meaning from an already powered on state). I've always recommended to people to buy as much RAM as your machine can support as long as you can afford it - that doesn't mean sacrifice everything for that aspect because not everyone needs or even makes use of such vast amounts of RAM but, when it's used properly - as that one poster above stated with 128GB of system RAM with 80GB dedicated to photographic work, he/she (sorry) knows how to properly make use of it and more than likely does, might even be using that machine for earning a living I don't know.īut again, when it's used properly it can make a far bigger difference in system performance than the fastest SSD technology out there in terms of actual productivity and usage and I clarified that because obviously we can't boot computers from a RAMdisk like I'd love to do and was doing with an Amiga 500 in 1984. But that's just me I guess, been using RAMdisks for many things since the early 1980s and have always known what they're capable of when used properly.Īnd by properly I don't just mean "I'm gonna install this RAMdisk software and it'll make my machine fast!" because it's a bit more complex than that overall. The best NVMe/PCI-E based SSDs are pretty much left standing still by a RAMdisk, that fact is just not going to change anytime soon nor really be any grounds for an argument or debate on it ever.Įven with the minor performance hit with a RAMdisk based on it using some CPU time, the sheer fact that a) the speed is still leaps and bounds beyond any other type of storage, b) it doesn't wear out so you can use it for practical purposes forever, and c) SSDs do actually wear out (even the best of them using the newest technologies) I'd still use a RAMdisk for scratch disk purposes any day and twice on a Sunday over any SSD available now or for years to come.
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