Right now, it loads an image of the RAMdisk on startup, saves it every x seconds (set at 300 right now), and also saves on shutdown. Right now I'm using Dataram RAMDisk, which works great, but the Load and Save feature could be better. My system is pretty decent, other than my hard drive: Phenom II X3 4.2 Ghz, 2.6 Ghz Northbridge, 4 GB CL8 DDR3, etc.
![dataram ramdisk startup dataram ramdisk startup](https://cdn.geckoandfly.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/super-speed-ram-disk-plus-830x594.jpg)
My most used programs would fit onto a 100 MB or so filesystem, and having my Firefox profile and some caches and some non-critical logs on a RAMdisk would hopefully remove most of my HDD usage out of my life, aside from bootup and the occasion that I want to fire up a game with (which I can just be patient with, for now).
DATARAM RAMDISK STARTUP INSTALL
I've been looking into RAMdisks instead, to get a performance increase (it's really bad right now-my system locks up a bit whenever the HDD indicator light is on, even on a clean install with negligible fragmentation). However, I'm a student in debt, and would rather not spend any more money on my computer right now. I would see more benefits by spend a bit more to get a 64 GB SSD solid state drive for my OS and programs, since I see 64 GB with Sandforce controllers go on sale for $75~100 on. I thought about spending ~$60 on a Samsung Spinpoint F3 (130+ MB/s, <10 ms), since my current HDD is hurting my performance a lot, but I really don't need any more space. I recently overhauled much of my computer after my last motherboard fried (on a budget, I had ~$300 for RAM, mobo, cpu, psu, case), but kept my old hard drive (250 GB, ~60 MB/s sequential, ~20 ms access time).