# Anybody using RAMDISK with success? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [February 16, 2018, 4:46pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/anybody-using-ramdisk-with-success/225794 "2018-02-16T16:46:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tachtevrenidis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tachtevrenidis/32/82475_2.png) [@tachtevrenidis](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tachtevrenidis)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 4:46pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/anybody-using-ramdisk-with-success/225794/1 "2018-02-16T16:46:24Z")
I would like to hear if going through the trouble of setting up a RAMDISK is worth it for Plex. I am looking at improving seeking times of live tv/recorded content, maybe even how fast the interface renders etc. In general I have an i5-powered laptop running my plex server with 8GB of RAM and eSATA storage for the recorded content. I should say that I first record on the internal drive and then nightly I move the content to external storage. I watch through a Shield TV (hardwired CAT6) and an LG TV over Wifi. Overall I can’t complain too much as I don’t get any buffering etc, but seeking can definitely stand to improve (sometimes 1 second delay, most often 3-4 sec delay and at the very worst 7 sec delay, but no matter what audio always cuts off). Oh, and I also transcode everything to h264 nightly so I mostly watch content that is DirectPlay-ed. thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![Yogo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3e96dc/32.png) [@Yogo](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Yogo)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/anybody-using-ramdisk-with-success/225794/2 "2018-02-17T01:39:00Z")
I run my transcoder on an 24GB ramdisk … no complaints here you just have to have a script that creates it before plex starts ---
**Author:** ![Elijah\_Baley](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elijah_baley/32/10336_2.png) [@Elijah\_Baley](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Elijah_Baley)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 1:52am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/anybody-using-ramdisk-with-success/225794/3 "2018-02-17T01:52:27Z")
I do not think that you really will gain anything much by using a ram disk for transcoding or much of anything else by using a ramdisk with Plex. Disk access is not generally a bottleneck when using Plex. Video processing is not a disk intensive so the gain in performance would be minimal. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 12:37am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/anybody-using-ramdisk-with-success/225794/4 "2020-01-08T00:37:48Z")