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by 201984 288 days ago
It's not doing nothing. It's caching frequently accessed files on my filesystem, which generally speeds everything up especially with HDDs. Why should someone instead waste that on a needlessly bloated music player?
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bslaq 288 days ago
…HDDs?
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201984 288 days ago
Hard disk drive
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bslaq 288 days ago
I don’t think it’s possible to find computers selling today with one of those.
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kiddico 288 days ago
If you open one of those bad boys up you'll find you can swap out and even add parts.
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201984 288 days ago
Regardless, RAM for disk cache is still useful on SSDs and my point still stands.
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