Using a RAM disk to make CAT tools faster

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Using a RAM disk to make CAT tools faster
Poster: Samuel Murray

Hello everyone

[i][For those who don't know, a RAM disk is when you set aside some of your RAM to be used as if it is a disk. You can copy files to this "disk", and using such files should theoretically be much faster. When you turn off the computer (or lose power!), or "unmount" the RAM disk, all of its contents is lost (except if you use an image, but then the "disk" is slower again), so RAM disks are really meant for very temporary storage only. For example, you can make your browser faster by using a RAM disk for its cache.][/i]

I'm trying out SoftPerfect's RAM disk.
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I'm was wondering if any of you have any experience in how CAT tools can be made faster with a RAM disk. I was thinking about copying TMs and glossaries to the RAM disk (although one has to remember to add newly translated segments to the non-volatile copies of one's TMs etc. as well). And obviously there is a risk of crashes. But different CAT tools work differently. OmegaT, for example, reads all TMs into memory anyway, whereas WFC reads the TMs whenver it moves to the next segment. I'm not sure how MemoQ, Trados, WFP3/5 etc. work, in this regard.

Have you any experience with this?

Thanks
Samuel