Chrome and youtube disk writes

Cyber-Mav · 27 Feb 2020 at 11:29

so with windows 10 being able to clearly show disk disk usage info in task manager iv noticed when playing youtube videos in chrome there is constant disk write activity as the video is buffered. not good for a ssd especially on a family computer that does nothing buy youtube stuff most of the day.

anyone else noticed this and seen a way around it? with the amount of ram chrome uses im shocked it doesnt buffer to ram and goes straight to disk. daft.

Cyber-Mav · 27 Feb 2020 at 11:42

well sorted this by setting chrome cache folder to mechanical hdd.

Cyber-Mav · 27 Feb 2020 at 14:03

There was a noticable slowdown in chrome response with mechanical drive as cache. Now using ramdisk which is even better than the ssd.

Cyber-Mav · 27 Feb 2020 at 20:21

Daft why chrome just doesnt buffer to ram.