Has anyone tried a RAM-disk for your sets? Performance?

[#1thelark]

I'm far away from getting anywhere near 4gigs with my Live-sets, but has anyone with more than 4GB of Ram tried to use it for storing their samples on a Ramdisk?
I'm just curious how much the performance will be affected... It could also save some battery life if the hdd actually goes into sleep mode.

[doghouse]

RAM disks made sense during the age of floppies and slow CPUs.

Not so much today when you have terabyte hard drives and apps like Live that let you store some stuff in RAM rather than streaming it off the drive.

[#1thelark]

Well I do think it still makes sense... SSDs are much faster than HDD.
And some in here are having problems with their hdd speed so a Ramdisk might still might be an option for improving performance.

[ztutz]

Not to mention durability if you spend time performing live...

[Pasha]

I'd be worried about AC/DC failure during the show... but it makes sense.