You shut Factorio down?

Seriously though, Factorio isn't too large, why not keep only that game on the SSD?

game is too big to fit on my SSD 😭

game loads too slowly on HDD 😴

YOLO. store the game in RAM. 🤘

Do you have Steam pre-cache shaders before the game opens? You can turn that off in the settings and have it compile them in the background while you play. Depending on the game, this can dramatically speed up starting time.

However, given the nature of Factorio's graphics, I'm not sure how much of a difference it'd make.

This isn’t storing the game in RAM; it’s caching it — which isn’t an effective strategy if you actually want fast load times and do any sort of substantial disk IO between system boot and game launch.

Not tryna get too analytical on a meme post, but tmpfs is the correct way to do this for anyone wanting to pull this sorta thing off seriously.

Just wanted to leave some appreciation here. I like that the blog post is so concise but still nicely follow able. Also it seems to prove the loading times quite a bit even though the solution is somewhat rudimentary. Love the spirit 😊