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than a regular hard drive or .times faster than an SSD /e've previously mentioned ho' you can move caches to a *+, disk to increase your SSD's longevity (http://lifehacker com /!!%-.01/move&your&caches& to&a&ram&disk&to&reduce& 'ear&on&ssds( 2esides that benefit) though) a *+, disk can make your programs launch as much as t'ice as fast3'hether you have an SSD or not 4aptop ,aga5ine offers the instructions for turning e6tra memory into a *+, disk 7ou'll need at least % 82 of *+,) a %9&bit system) and *+, disk soft'are (e g ) the free *+,Disk (http://memory dataram com /products&and&services/soft'are /ramdisk/( from Data*+,( :erformance tests by 4aptop ,aga5ine using the ;rystalDisk,ark benchmarking tool sho's the *+, disk reading and 'riting even faster than an SSD <n real life) after setting up the *+, disk) you should notice dramatically faster application launching =here are) ho'ever) some disadvantages to using *+, disks that you should kno' of +s :;/orld points out (http://''' pc'orld com /article/.%-#10 /ho'>to>supercharge>your>pc>'ith>a>ram>disk html() there's very limited storage capacity and the random access memory is inherently volatile3you don't 'ant to store important files on there + *+, disk could also increase startup and shutdo'n times) because most utilities (optionally( save and reload the data to avoid losing it 'hen the :; loses po'er (:;/orld mentions :rimo *amdisk gets around this issue) though ( Still) for those of us 'ithout an SSD) this is a cheaper upgrade than
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