Yes, Windows is far from perfect and will stubbornly insist on paging tons of useless junk all the time, but (as of Win7 onwards) it's not as bad as you might expect. So the entire notion of using a RAM disk to extend memory is fundamentally unworkable and counterproductive. Windows will (in theory) only fill up memory as it needs memory, and it will (in theory) only use virtual memory on a drive when physical memory becomes filled up. ROG RAMDisk can dynamically resize itself to free up memory for the OS. Intel 750 PCIe drives are a preferred device in enterprise mass storage servers, they're designed to perform as "Tier 0 storage" - and you can be assured that a single consumer desktop running a single bloated copy of Windows is not going to be anywhere near as demanding on your drive as a randomly accessed Wikipedia storage rack which serves thousands of internet users per minute.Ī software RAM disk is unsuitable for use as an OS cache location.
And it has its own controller chip (an overclocked Intel CH29AE41AB0) which runs some rather advanced wear-levelling and block-control algorithms in firmcode to maximize longevity. Your SSD has its own embedded cache - five Micron D9PQL DRAM chips, a total (according to specs) of 1.25GB DDR3-1600 - which absorbs most small data storage/transfer operations before data is ever written into main flash. Excessive write/rewrite activity accelerates wear and tear on NVFlash, it gradually erodes away SSD performance and longevity.īut on the plus side, you also gain maximum possible performance because all your background OS activities run at very high (SATA3 or PCIe 3.0) SSD speeds, bottlenecks from slower storage devices would be a thing of the past. I understand your concern about having countless temp/cache/swap/scratch/paging transfers on your SSD. At worst, it won't install and you'll waste five minutes discovering that ROG RAMDisk isn't compatible with your particular motherboard. Again - you can download ROG software from any other ROG support page (even if it's not listed for your particular ROG motherboard), it should install and run on any motherboard with an onboard Asus ROG chip.
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