By (author unknown), MacOSXHints.com – January 04, 2011 at 10:30AM
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 …
