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

 

[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

 

[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?

 

[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?