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201984 6 days ago

It's not doing nothing. It's caching frequently accessed files on my filesystem, which generally speeds everything up especially with HDDs. Why should someone instead waste that on a needlessly bloated music player?

bslaq 6 days ago | parent [-]

…HDDs?

201984 6 days ago | parent [-]

Hard disk drive

bslaq 6 days ago | parent [-]

I don’t think it’s possible to find computers selling today with one of those.

kiddico 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

If you open one of those bad boys up you'll find you can swap out and even add parts.

201984 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Regardless, RAM for disk cache is still useful on SSDs and my point still stands.