Surely the swapfile is not the problem. But the cache of browsers is. Especially chromium based ones Like Vivaldi, Chromium, Opera 3.x, Iron, Maxthon and also the spyware from Google known as Chrome, which all do an huge disk traffic. Just start them with the switch --disk-cache-dir="R:\cache" and both your browser and your SSD will tanks a lot All other browser minus Opera 12 will take a grad advantage of a similar action. (Opera12, as usual, does better than others, given it has its own option to cache on ram since the stone age) P.S. Imdisk I suggested above can allocate the RAM dynamically, so only the RAM really used is "stolen" from the system memory.
You make a 1GB disk. You put 300 MB of files on it. The ram used by IMDsisk will be 300MB (or little more), not 1GB like other Ramdisk solutions. And you can do that also on 32 bit systems, using the RAM above 3GB, not seen by the OS.
I would put whole AppData folder on ramdisk but it'll only take maybe 4 gigs? Why did you even buy 64 gb of ram? You won them or got for free? Because seriously, you don't need more than 8gb for normal use.
Most standard today is 8GB RAM as normal people use. But for myself as be honestly. I use 16GB Ram on my desktop with WIN 7 PRO x64, because I am using VMWARE they use lusty ram to run Guest OS... I can run 3 OS'es running and left me out still plenty rams.. So, Why consider have 64GB RAM?? Use for Server with Data Center? My Server runs Smooth and fast as 8GB, IF I want SQL Database, then I will put 2nd server with 8GB!!
The only issue I have had ramwise is that I once ran out while undocking every window and resizing them across 3 - 1080p monitors in FSX... During flight. Running 3 or 4 VM's concurrently is now routine... I use virtualbox.
lol, I used to run 3 x 1080p LCDs too, nice having that much screen real-estate, I miss it sometimes, used to have email one screen, browser centre, and whatever I was messing about with on the other, usually VM Moved to a single 28" 1080 atm, but looking to get 1440p next, something a bit wider too Only stopped with surround because games were becoming a PITA to run with 3 screens, the ones that worked stretched the side images badly and distorted them, NVIDIA was showing off their new tech with Pascal that fixes it, might consider multi screen again if I go for a 1080
this reminds me of a Beatles song in Sgt pepper's: "a day in the life" "I read the news today oh boy Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire And though the holes were rather small They had to count them all Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall. I'd love to turn you on."
Eh I have a dev machine with 72GB of RAM but only a 500GB SSD. Sometimes you find the weirdest second hand configs on the market and wonder what the original owner was thinking...
the laptop is maxed out. Two m.2 NVMe ports have two 512GB Samsung 512GB PRO SSDs Two 2.5" bays for SSD/HDD have two Samsung 2TB HDDs. Nothing more I can add in terms of storage. And I don't wanna sell anything. I bought the system with the max specs for bragging rights.
128 GB Ram for the win. AppData = Ram Temp Folder = Ram pagefile = Ram Browser cache = Ram Internet Explorer Folder = Ram