Does windows cache in RAM?

[flimsy888]

I was arguing with someone the other day, and they said you don't need an ssd because windows caches itself in the ram, pretty sure an ssd is still worth it.  Am I Right?

[Levent]

it does cache some of the modules in ram but it really doesnt make any sense of speed any how 

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[Dravic]

I was arguing with someone the other day, and they said you don't need an ssd because windows caches itself in the ram, pretty sure an ssd is still worth it.  Am I Right?

 

It is using pagefiles to cache on your hard drive/ssd anyway not only reducing performance when needed but it has its own safety reasons (saving app progress and saving app from a crash when you run out of real RAM, it starts writing to your disk as 'virtual ram')

 

Other than that SSD is still winning for boot times etc due to random access being hundreds times faster than HDD and higher sequential writing/saving speeds.

 

Doesnt change the fact that SSDs are REALLY overpriced right now.

[Glenwing]

It's getting from the storage drive to the RAM where the big slowdown occurs... Loading programs or the OS from the storage into the RAM takes a long time, that is where SSDs come in.  Whether or not the OS navigation system responsiveness type stuff will be any faster, because more of the OS is cached in RAM, all I can say is I have used a system with both a hard drive and an SSD later on (with a clone of the HDD on it), and opening menus, control panel, things like that were much much more responsive on the SSD.  So that pretty much settles it for me, I don't care what the "theory" is

[Vitalius]

Doesnt change the fact that SSDs are REALLY overpriced right now.

On that note, which is true, Amazon is having a 24-48 hour (depends on product) sale on SSD's. 120GB SSD's for $80-90. Just a heads-up.

[TheSLSAMG]

On that note, which is true, Amazon is having a 24-48 hour (depends on product) sale on SSD's. 120GB SSD's for $80-90. Just a heads-up.

And the Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB is usually around $80-$100 USD.

[DaftBehemoth]

And the Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB is usually around $80-$100 USD.

And that SSD is nearly as good as the Intel 520, but costs much less

[Vitalius]

And the Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB is usually around $80-$100 USD.

The cheapest PC Part Picker has it for is $99.99. 

You save like $10-$20. Which is pretty good.

 

And that SSD is nearly as good as the Intel 520, but costs much less

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Back on topic: Considering an SSD is pretty much slower RAM (due to SATA3 limitations), and the way pagefile works, SSD's are simply better than HDD's.

And SSHD's are somewhere imbetween, likely close to HDD's than SSD's depending on when you use it and for what.

For example, an SSHD with 8GB of cache will pretty much cache your OS and so your OS will work as if on an SSD. While everything else will be on an HDD. Pretty useful, as nothing else benefits as much as an OS from SSD's, imo.

[Guest]

unless u got like 1000gb of ram like that new adata stick =D then ram is not to be used for data storage

like that ram thing asus "made"

[GoodBytes]

Windows Vista and up, has  features called SuperFetch. It monitors what you run and when you run, and starts pre-loading programs in RAM, for a faster startup.

NOTE: Pre-loads the program to RAM, means that the files are loaded to RAM, NOT the actual program starting on the back. Many programs, needs to read a or various files on your HDD.

So, Super Fetch makes program starts faster, but not SSD fast. Especially when it comes to program you rarely open or new.