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Thanks Ed for the link...
I was curious to see the RamDisk performance on my system, with DDR3 memory, picked ImDisk and tested the performance of the 4GBs ramdrive. On its own, the results are impressive but does not mean much, so it is compared to SATA II SSD and NVMe SSD to ramdisk CrystalDiskMark performance:
The ramdisk certainly blows away the Samsung NVMe by a large margin; especially in 4KiB performance, where the most noticeable performance increase comes from for the desktop.
The three pictures sort of display storage history and may just project future direction. From this perspective, the Intel Optane 800P is the next step in storage technology, its performance benchmark would be between the NVMe and the ramdrive. Its 4KiB performance is much closer to the ramdisk 4KiB performance, than the NVMe drive's. Here's a link for the 800P with CrystalDiskMark benchmark:
Intel Optane 800P SSD Review (58/118GB) | The SSD Review
In my view, the average desktop performance does not change much, when switched from SSD to NVMe drive. Yes, the system boots up faster and programs open marginally faster, but nowhere nearby the level then moving from HDD to SSD. Maybe moving from SSD, one of my current six years old system, to Intel Optane drive will have much more noticeable desktop performance increase. Especially with two of them in RAID 0; time will tell, if Intel can move Optane to PCIe x4 instead of the current x2, or stabilize and/or make the RAID configuration easy...