Disable Prefetch & Superfetch

Disable pagefile/superfetch and setup RAMDisk for high disk usage apps, like for a browser cache.



AMD Radeon(TM) RAMDisk gives 4GB for free.

RoasterMen said:

You should only disable superfetch if your system's RAM is 8GB. It only makes sense at 4GB.

If I am right, superfetch caches applications which you use in order. (eg. When you start up your PC, log on to an account the first thing you open is firefox, next a game, etc..)

I think you mixed it up with Virtual Memory, amount of RAM has nothing to do with superfetch/prefetch.

TairikuOkami said:

Disable pagefile/superfetch and setup RAMDisk for high disk usage apps, like for a browser cache.



AMD Radeon(TM) RAMDisk gives 4GB for free.

Ramdisks are really not needed these days with Windows 10 compressed memory, particularly with SSDs.

cereberus said:

Ramdisks are really not needed these days with Windows 10 compressed memory, particularly with SSDs.

RAMDisk is particularly useful, if someone has concerns about SSD's lifetime. It can be used for prefetch files as well.

eLPuSHeR said:

But RAM disks lose everything when you power off. Not really good candidates for caches.

The RAM disk programs out there today, have settings, where a copy of the disk contents will be written to your hard drive(and usually drive of choice) after a certain amount of time(i.e. 10 min., 30 min. and so on) plus an option of have the contents written at system shut down.

I have played with one before and found it Kludgy, as it slowed boot and shutdown immensely(while waiting for contents to be written and read at shutdown & boot).

TairikuOkami said:

RAMDisk is particularly useful, if someone has concerns about SSD's lifetime. It can be used for prefetch files as well.

Using a RAM disk just decreases RAM available for use, increasing paging unless user has plenty of RAM. When will people stop perpetuating stuff about writing life issues with SSDS. Things have moved on.