RAM Disk

I'm trying to use RAM Disk. The question:

When you use it or where you think it's useful to use it? I have some problems to see their utility.

Your suggestions/tips will be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

Some info on this thread

 

Yes this was back in 2007 but with todays hardware and memory with at least 2 gig even on laptops it can have his use.

Many moan how to secure delete there sandboxes.If you have the whole sandbox in memory in the temp. file in Ramdisk and finish browser session then at that very moment anything sandbox related is gone,nothing left as you can get how memory is working.
Speeding things up if in Ram is questionable as my experience reveal that there is no sign of it if i compare the speed of opera in Ramdisk versus Opera in normal sandboxed version.

 

@ newbino and Huupi thanks for your comments. I'm clarified now.

 

I use Farstone Ramdisk and have been doing so for a year or so. I have a 800MB RAM disk. Little too big for my needs but I´m too lazy to make it smaller (I use about 200MB of that)

I have installed my browser and other software that I want to run fast. For a while I hade the temp directory there but some times installations require a lot of space in the temp file so I went back to the default location.

I have a folder in RAM disk as the only place from where unknown executables are allowed to run (Software Restriction Policy)

 

The biggest benefit is to point your enviromental temp variables to the RAM disk as well as the cache store in IE (as most apps store internet based things using IE's dir) and firefox.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.cache.disk.parent_directory

 

It seems not to be adviced to do that: many installers require to reboot and use the tmp folder. If at reboot tmp folder is empty the installer fails to do their full installation.

 

I use it for browser,if there is something to delete then its gone forever,no need for plugins or thirth party stuff to securely delete.