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Old May 21, 2013 | 2:45 pm
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RAM Disk with an SSD?

I just added memory to my new laptop (i7 hyper-threaded quad core previously described) bringing it up to 16 gig (and making it the most powerful computer I've ever owned!). I'm trying to think of how to exploit all that extra memory. If I had a regular hard drive, adding a RAM disk and pointing the TEMP environment variables and swap file towards that would be an obvious choice. However, as I have an SSD, would I gain anything? If the difference is di minimus, I won't bother, but if I would get a perceivable performance increase it's probably worth doing. If the latter, how much memory should I grab for the RAM disk?
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