RAMDisk is fun to play around with, both for OS and file playback. Probably something to do with the latencies. Unstable/inconvenient, though, obviously. The ORFAS dudes seemed to enjoy Optane drives, ethos for why was similar ('latency'). None of this holds up to much scrutiny, but at least RAMDisk is free.
Thanks, I may play around with it. I had been using the same sound pairing for a month and thought it sounded gimped/harsh/less than its capabilities, so any change, I'll notice a difference. I have 32 GB of RAM installed, so using some of it for music storage wouldn't have a performance hit.
I downloaded and set up the trial 1GB version and it's comparable to the SSD result, when playing local files off it. Probably a tad more detailed/focused, but clearly better than the external HD. Thanks for the tip!
Unsure which software you're using, but ImDisk should be freeware, lots of guides for that available with a simple Google search. There are a lot of third party options, though, sure, some with supposedly better latency figures than others as a selling point (usually at cost). Microsoft has some native solutions to implementing a Ramdisk, also, but they require some finesse to implement.
You can also play around with stuff like Foobar's "Ram Disk" plugin, which will sort of on the fly load tracks to RAM for playback and flush them when new tracks are sent to it. Fairly similar principles. There's other playback software that plays with loading tracks to RAM too, though, if you poke around.
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