
You may want to do this automatically every few minutes or just at shut down. You’d have to save a copy of your RAM disk to your computer’s hard drive to ensure you wouldn’t lose your Photoshop installation. For example, let’s say you installed Photoshop to your RAM disk.

So saving files to the RAM disk is pointless unless you don’t care that you’d lose the files - but if you didn’t care about the files, why save them in the first place?īecause RAM isn’t persistent, you’d also have to save the contents of your RAM disk to disk when you shut down your computer and load them when you turn it on. This means that you can’t store anything important on a RAM disk - if your computer crashed because of lost power, you’d lose all the data in your RAM disk. When your computer loses power, the contents of your RAM will be erased. This would mean faster application load times and faster file read/write times for files saved in the RAM disk. When you save a file, it would happen almost instantly as it would just be copied to another portion of RAM. If you installed programs in a RAM disk, you’d have near-instant load times because their data would already be stored in the fastest memory possible.

Initially, this seems like it could help optimize performance.
