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Prevent SSD wear by using a RAM disk for cache

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Installing a new OCZ Vertex II SSD in an old 2006 iMac really speeds things up (and is documented in photos here).

However, I was searching for ways to limit the wear of my SSD (since each cell has a limited lifetime with regards to writes). One solution was to store the Safari cache on a RAM drive which will only be written to disk at logout.

Several hints on this site describe a way to store Safari cache on a RAM drive. However, none seemed to work for me because:
  • Some RAMdrive creators were not available for download anymore (EsperanceDV).
  • Other scripts did not provide a way to store the cache to disk at logout.
Therefore, I created this Mac OSX application (which is actually a simple Bash script), which you can place in your login items which will create a RAM drive and store/restore ...

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