Ramdisks: Why You Might Enjoy One, Plus a Performance Puzzler
A ramdisk - or if you prefer, RAMdisk - is a method of taking a section of memory and treating it as disk. If you think about it for a moment, the pros/cons should be obvious: RAM is much faster than even the fastest disk, so operations on the ramdisk are much faster than when using NVMe, SSD, and certainly spinning disk. However, RAM is also volatile. If the server reboots or crashes, anything on the ramdisk is lost. R...
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