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I still think the RAM disk makes sense. He's not looking for permanent storage, he's looking for extremely high speed scratch space in which to work from. He cranks on this area of storage during a build, or code push, etc. It pummels the device with I/O and spits out a finished product which can then be moved over to a permanent storage solution. If the power were to go out, he would lose the work in progress and would just have to start again...which makes the volatility a non-issue. And this does save on the wear and tear aspect of the SSD.
Licensing for Windows Server is going to be pretty expensive. Around $1000 for a single server license, and microsoft charges on per-core licensing with 8 cores being the minimum per CPU you have to buy and 16 being the minimum per host you have to buy. The 2 core pack license cost is $121.50, and with the minimums being 16, you need 8 of these...so 121.50 x 8 = $972.
Microsoft won't care, they will actually be happy as you will be giving them significantly more money in licensing costs.