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Ramdisk

Morrile

Morrile

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Jun 18, 2009
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Hello

I am about to swap my HDD for a SSD and read that one method of increasing the lifespan of the SSD is to have a ramdisk and (somehow, as I don't know) to move all Internet Caches, temp directory (does a mac have one?) to the ramdisk.

Is this true and is there an app for that?

I have 16GB of ram, so plenty to share about.

Morrile
 
maflynn

maflynn

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In all likelihood, SSDs will far outlast your laptop, so much so I'd not worry about it. Just my $.02.
 
robvas

robvas

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Morrile said:
Hello

I am about to swap my HDD for a SSD and read that one method of increasing the lifespan of the SSD is to have a ramdisk and (somehow, as I don't know) to move all Internet Caches, temp directory (does a mac have one?) to the ramdisk.

Is this true and is there an app for that?

I have 16GB of ram, so plenty to share about.

Morrile
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You don't need to do that, that was more of a precaution in the early days of SSD
 
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