[potkor]

People go completely irrational about avoiding writes to SSD's, I've seen researchers at an EE dept spending evenings tuning their Windows installations and going as far as stuffing frequently used stuff onto a RAM disk.

I guess the early off brand SSD's randomly eating your data didn't help the popular perception (even though that wasn't because of flash wear). But still...

[marshray]

What's wrong with locating frequently used stuff on a RAM disk?

[wmf]

It's work, but it's unlikely to have any benefit.