Storing Firefox Cache over NAS?

[Trojan Horse]

Hi

I have 2x 3tb and an ssd in my main pc. I want to make my PC completely silent when browsing the internet, I dont mind if its loud when I am gaming as headphones are on and I can't hear it.

Right now I store firefox cache on my hard drive and so whenever I browse I can hear it spin up, its not noisy and I can live with it but I have a NAS and want to know if its possible to store the firefox cache over there, in a seperate room where I won't be able to hear it

 

[Trojan Horse]

Bump

 

[ChrisD.]

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/955978

You may have to map a shared folder on the NAS as a drive on your PC.

 

[skyripper]

Buy a cheap USB memory stick and use that to store your cache files?

 

[Rainmaker]

I know SSDs have spoiled us but really? Your hdd can't be that loud, surely?

Why not just go into Preferences > Advanced > Network and tick 'Override automatic cache management' and set it to 0 so there is no cache and you browse direct? Or build a little mATX box and put pfSense or IPFire on it and set up a transparent squid proxy to hold your cache that way?

 

[bledd]

Ssd?
Or ram disk

 

[Trojan Horse]

I know SSDs have spoiled us but really? Your hdd can't be that loud, surely?

Why not just go into Preferences > Advanced > Network and tick 'Override automatic cache management' and set it to 0 so there is no cache and you browse direct? Or build a little mATX box and put pfSense or IPFire on it and set up a transparent squid proxy to hold your cache that way?

No no it's not loud at all I'm just a strange person I hate electrical noise I can hear my powerlines it drives me crazy so will try this

If I disable cache does it affect anything else? Just means we pages won't preload any more right? I'm on 40/10 so doubt even need cache

 

[Rainmaker]

No no it's not loud at all I'm just a strange person I hate electrical noise I can hear my powerlines it drives me crazy so will try this

If I disable cache does it affect anything else? Just means we pages won't preload any more right? I'm on 40/10 so doubt even need cache

Yeah it just stops website caching locally. I have it turned off on my desktop (because SSD and 160/12 internet) and I turn it off on Linux live USBs too (to prevent useless wearing writes to the flash media). Never had a problem.

 

[Trojan Horse]

Yeah it just stops website caching locally. I have it turned off on my desktop (because SSD and 160/12 internet) and I turn it off on Linux live USBs too (to prevent useless wearing writes to the flash media). Never had a problem.

Is there any way you can get it to keep saved passwords etc so I don't have to keep relogging in?

 

[bledd]

Create a ramdisk.

http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk

With the free version you can create a 1GB ram disk. What this will do is, say you have 16GB system ram, it will reduce it to 15GB and set 1GB as a virtual hard drive. (I set mine as R: )

You can then use this as a super fast disk.

 

[Trojan Horse]

Create a ramdisk.

http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk

With the free version you can create a 1GB ram disk. What this will do is, say you have 16GB system ram, it will reduce it to 15GB and set 1GB as a virtual hard drive. (I set mine as R: )

You can then use this as a super fast disk.

Cheers. One question - does RAM get affected by writes same way as SSDs do? as in I shouldn't write too often onto SSDs, so same with RAM?

 

[Minstadave]

No RAM doesn't wear with usage like flash.

 

[bledd]

No it doesn't.

I really don't think ssd wear I'd something you should be worried about.

Likelihood is the ssd will far outlive your system.


As with any type of drive, don't trust your data to a single device. Create backups and create system backups too.

Mscrium Reflect is great for system backups.