Ramdisk are not more complicated as all other disks. My complete BOINC is running on a I7/2700K in a 8 GB ramdisk 24/7 which are saved automatically on disk for the situation that system bound to restart because of updades e.t.c. So this aren't be the prob.

And sometimes, to get the badges, i switch to only get CEP2 as my running project. So it runs eight tasks simultaneously. I don't want these write-processes simultaneously on my ssd, because it can be but must not be affect the life-time of my ssd.

To avoid this i use about 50% of my RAM for the ramdisk. My SSD which is my main and only disk-device is almost unused in affect of BOINC an therefore WCG.

Greetings, Pilgerlein

We had planned to compile the various recommendations about RAM disk in a Howto guide but never got around to it. Maybe the new guys will have a go at it. Note, that we don't use this technology ourselves and are content with conventional technology, which works fine for our purposes. This is, as Lawrence pointed out, really mostly for the tinkerers.
Best wishes,
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i have created ram disks. they are not to complicated for me. im in the same ssd boat. my problem is my computer is shut off 2-3 times a day and all night. so i feel a dam disk would be ineffective. how do you make it auto save to your hdd?

Benjamin,

If you are not running more than 4 work-units on a modern drive I would not be concerned using anything additional. My quad operates 4 on a HD just fine. My workstation has 16 simultaneous WU running on an SSD on the extreme side.

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