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My use case might not be very relatable, but I run a bunch of stuff cached in ramdisk.
One example is if my jellyfin server has to transcode something, I have it use ramdisk instead of my SSD for the transcoding cache.
I see, that's interesting. I do a lot of transcoding but offline so i don't have usage for such a cache. I've tested various storage solutions but on my setup, transcoding is always CPU-bound, even on old ass HDDs the bottleneck is never I/O.
I do reencode bluray remuxes too, and also then use ramdisk for it.
I've just, always had enough ram to do it so I've stuck with it. And the ram is probably gonna take the wear better than SSDs do.
I also use it for download cache for some things, smaller things like music and books/manga.