> S: Swap and Scratch Files (this is actually a RAM-based 128 GB drive for speed
Isn't it better to just have the RAM as RAM than to have the same RAM used to provide swap space on a RAM disk?
Isn't it better to just have the RAM as RAM than to have the same RAM used to provide swap space on a RAM disk?
One of the primary motivations for using a RAM disk was to not beat-up SSD's with the kind of access swap space gets.
The advantage of a hardware RAM-based drive is that it is extremely fast. When these machines were built, this was the fastest way to get data on and off a swap drive.
Today SSD's are super fast. On some machines we now have a separate dedicated 250 GB SSD for swap. If it craps out, you throw it away and pop in a new one. No worries about comingling valuable data with swap space.