they indeed improved quite a lot from the initial ones, it's an OS issue too. From Win7 SP1 on they're handled much better. But they're still not my favorites for very frequent random writes. In the meantime, nothing beats my RAMdrive.

Actually, I have no long-time using experience with SDD's. For HDD's, I've lost only one in the last 35 years (maybe about 30 disks used in that period).

For randow reads, the RAMdrive is 10x to 50x faster than SSD, and the SSD is 10x faster than HDD. For random writes, the SSD and HDD are about similar, and the RAMdrive is at least 100x faster than both.

But since I've run into scenes which generate over 10Gb of TextureCache, I'm not putting all than on my RAMdrive in all cases. Having all that on HDD did not present noticeable slowdowns, so ...

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