Ram Drive and SSD, where do I put them in encoding workflow?

[kempodragon]

I'm going to max out my memory to 32g and use some of it for a ram drive. I'm also looking to add a SSD. How do I integrate them into my encoding workflow? I will be using Ripbot for video, as well as Blender and GIMP. My processor is an AMD A-10, 3.5 GHz, so I can't upgrade to new processor without basically replacing whole system. I've been hesitant about SSD's, because of questions about the longevity, so I'd appreciate knowing if it is worth getting one.

[Atak_Snajpera]

I've been hesitant about SSD's, because of questions about the longevity, so I'd appreciate knowing if it is worth getting one.
Do not worry about SSD. Just do not buy cheap planar TLC
http://i.cubeupload.com/8Hi5Io.png
If you buy let's say 240 GB MLC 20nm then your SSD can easily write ~256 TiB and still have one year data retention at 30C!

I'm going to max out my memory to 32g and use some of it for a ram drive.
Creating dedicated RAMDISK makes no sense because Windows does that on fly. This technique is called BUFFERING/CACHEING. There is cool small program RamMap (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/rammap.aspx)which nicely shows what files are sitting in RAM.

[Bloax]

Dedicated RAM drives are alright for temporary files and small games (just make sure to dump your save files off to an actual drive before shutting down/rebooting), but not very useful for video encoding due to the large filesizes.

[kempodragon]

Thanks for the info. It looks like I'll be getting that SSD after all sometime next year.

[Sparktank]

RAM disks are more useful on HDD's.

When I was using HDD's, I bought a licence for one that would start up the RAMdisk before Windows became available to use.
It would save the session before Windows exited for shutdown/reboot/logoff/etc. (unless sudden power interruption)
And it would load the previously saved session again.

I would keep just quickly accessed programs that were already backed up on the HDD.
I only used 2GB at the time. Mostly the encoding CLI's, I actually installed Avisynth on there and kept the most frequently used plugins on there (as well as backed up on HDD), had MPC-HC and all codecs on there, had one small game or two installed on there.

I actually never got around to setting up a proper benchmark between the RAMDisk setup and the HDD setup to find a difference, if any.
By the time I was getting to ready to setup test encodes and stress things out, SSD's were on sale everywhere so I upgraded to that and have never really felt a use for the RAMDisk.