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Use a RAMdisk to manage downloads
Sorry. I don't see the advantage to this hint. Who reboots enough to make this hint very useful? Who monitors their downloads folder so carefully as to not lose valuable downloads by forgetting to take inventory before all these frequent shutdowns?
Use a RAMdisk to manage downloads
Right, this isn't exactly the best use case for a RAM disk. The best use I ever got from a RAM disk was ten years or so ago I put my web browser (Netscape) cache on one. This did three things. It sped up web browsing, improved privacy because the cache files would be totally gone after a restart and it prevented disk corruption. Netscape used to be horrible in this regard, frequently requiring the use of Disk Warrior or Norton Utilities to fix. Putting its cache on a RAM disk saved the hard drive. I don't think you'd see the same benefit with the faster computers and less buggy software of today but maybe it would still make some difference.
Use a RAMdisk to manage downloads
Agreed. This is a very poor hint (there's been a lot of those lately)
Use a RAMdisk to manage downloads
Who reboots enough to make this hint very useful?I do. I shut down my computer nearly every day, except in cases of long downloads/iTunes queues I want to leave running overnight. Who monitors their downloads folder so carefully as to not lose valuable downloads by forgetting to take inventory before all these frequent shutdowns? Nobody, but that means nothing. I simply test everything I download immediately after it finishes (Growl helps a lot with this). If I want to keep it, I move it to the hard disk. If not, I leave it where it is, knowing that it will go away when I shut down or restart. "Sure, Apple, go ahead and restart after you install your security update. Crap! I forgot to sort my d/l folder first and lost that 9GB DMG file that took seven hours to d/l!"I would never download a 9 GB file to the RAM disk, even if I had the RAM. Everything larger than half a GB that I download is something I know I'm going to want to keep, so I download that sort of thing straight to the hard drive. |
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