Run Visual Studio in memory?

Question

Is it possible to run Visual Studio entirely in memory, and does anyone know how?

I heard that this was possible, and that it makes Visual Studio run a lot quicker than when it is run from disk. I've searched around and can't find anything on it, but getting sick of my intellisense freezing up on me!

Answer 1

Start a ram disk, such as AMD RamDisk. And install it or copy it to there. It should have an option to backup the ramdisk on shutdown.

[AMD Ramdisk][1] http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/radeon-memory/Pages/ramdisk-overview.aspx

Alternatively, buy an SSD which will have a great performance increase over your HDD, and doesn't have the downsides of running stuff from ram (ie losing data on power loss, having to backup to hdd at shutdown etc).