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Im not a tech junky so am hoping you could explain the ‘running startools from a ramdrive’ suggestion.......am I right in saying you suggest mounting a ssd and loading startools on to that then launching the program from this ssd location?
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In the case of StarTools + WIndows, indeed you would launch StarTools from the SSD drive or RAM drive. For StarTools + Linux you have bit more fleixibility.
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I guess pics/darks/lights/etc should also be on the ssd drive as well?
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As Sil expertly explained, the biggest benefit will be seen for things that get accessed often. This includes any page swapping files and, in the case of StarTools, the .TRK files it creates.
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How much of an increase in speed would you expect to see doing this in your opinion?
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It's a bit of a "how long is a piece of string" type of question
Much depends on what you're used to now, how big the datasets are, what the current throughput is, what sort of storage medium you would be replacing your HDD with, etc. A RAM drive is as fast as... well... RAM (but volatile and more expensive), an SSD drive is slower than that (usually in the 400+ MB/s range), but much faster than a mechanical drive (usually around the 75 MB/s range).
Regardless, as Sil suggest, just putting your OS on an SSD should speed up your whole system noticeably.