can i move firefox and chome cache to a ram disk?

[gaia]

hi to all
i'm new , and i'm a new mac user , said good bye to windows , and start with mac

i would like to move firefox and chrome chache to a ram disk
i read how to create a ram disk
but i don't know how move firefox and chrome cache

can somebody help me?
i'm a mac novice , and i run sierra

 

[Raz0rEdge]

The first question is why? What do you think you're going to get out of this? And what does "cache" mean to you in this context?

 

[ferrarr]

More importantly, why do you think you need a RAM disk?

 

[gaia]

The first question is why? What do you think you're going to get out of this? And what does "cache" mean to you in this context?

Hi
It was expansive add a new ssd ,i'm not talking about the ssd cost ,but the cost to open my imac and changed it
I suft a lot and i will wear down my ssd in 1 year
about cache i mean the data saved by firefox and chrome to the ssd when i suft ,when i open sites,webpage , if i give a look firefox has a cache option in the preferences
i would like to save firefox and chrome cache on the ramdisk and not on the ssd
cache -> website ,website images and so on

can i do it? can i use a ram disk ?
thanks

More importantly, why do you think you need a RAM disk?

hi
to avoid to wear down my ssd soon
thanks

 

[MacInWin]

Your SSD will most likely work well past the life of your Mac in general. Yes, SSDs do have a finite life, but then so do mechanical spinner drives. Rather than trying to figure out how to move reads/writes to an external spinning drive, just enjoy the Mac and don't worry about the read/writes on an SSD.

 

[gaia]

Your SSD will most likely work well past the life of your Mac in general. Yes, SSDs do have a finite life, but then so do mechanical spinner drives. Rather than trying to figure out how to move reads/writes to an external spinning drive, just enjoy the Mac and don't worry about the read/writes on an SSD.

hi
but seeing i have 16GB of ram , is possible to move cache of other programs to make it faster?
just for knowledge
thanks

 

[MacInWin]

I don't think you understand what cache really is. When you open a program that needs space for storing items temporarily, that space is provided on the drive, usually the internal drive. That space on the drive is called cache, because the application caches that temporary data there. What slows down the application is the read/write cycle to that spinning drive. A RAM drive is a virtual drive, created in RAM memory, in an attempt to speed up the application as it reads and writes, although the downside is that the application now has less RAM to use, which creates a greater need for cache, so the net effect is not as great as might be expected. With an SSD the read/write speed is so fast that the sacrifice of RAM is now actually to be avoided. No RAM Drive is needed because the read/write to the SSD is basically the same as to RAM, so the better use of RAM is to let it be available to the apps and just use the SSD for cache operations.

Bottom line, you don't want or need RAM drives with an SSD. Is it possible? Yes, but definitely not worth it.

 

[gaia]

I don't think you understand what cache really is. When you open a program that needs space for storing items temporarily, that space is provided on the drive, usually the internal drive. That space on the drive is called cache, because the application caches that temporary data there. What slows down the application is the read/write cycle to that spinning drive. A RAM drive is a virtual drive, created in RAM memory, in an attempt to speed up the application as it reads and writes, although the downside is that the application now has less RAM to use, which creates a greater need for cache, so the net effect is not as great as might be expected. With an SSD the read/write speed is so fast that the sacrifice of RAM is now actually to be avoided. No RAM Drive is needed because the read/write to the SSD is basically the same as to RAM, so the better use of RAM is to let it be available to the apps and just use the SSD for cache operations.

Bottom line, you don't want or need RAM drives with an SSD. Is it possible? Yes, but definitely not worth it.

hi
well in the past i used pgui pro under windows and i set the temp folder in a ram disk , i worked with big files , many files about 38MP
and ptgui the temp folder set to ram disk , was really very fast , i mean twice faster
thanks

 

[MacInWin]

Did you have an SSD in that windows machine? If you did, and if you saw a great increase in speed like that, something was wrong with the SSD.