RAM disk vs large Squeezelite buffer?

[agent_kith]

Thank you for the fast answer!

You said "low buffer but enough RAM". How is this exactly working? 

Set a RAM disk size that's appriopriate (e.g. 1 or 2 album size), but use a smaller buffer for squeezelite. Because all your playing music is already in RAM, there's little point in creating another buffer (just going to add more processing time).

My idea was/is to avoid disk activity as much as possible, since I have a SSD,
and I have read that some manufacturers (for example Innuos) are saying that SSDs are a source of some high frequency electrical noise,
that can pollute the signals and could be detrimental to the sound quality.
In their higher end products they do use SSDs, but they have separate power supplies, separating them from the rest of the electronics.

This was the reason that I liked the RAM disk idea.
And if the same thing could be accomplished with a large RAM based buffer, it could be even more elegant solution since there would be no need to manually add music to RAM disk before each play.

But, as I already have said, I have no clue how this Squeezelite buffer thing actually works, so I could be on the wrong trail.
I was hoping that with large buffer sizes, all the files will be loaded in RAM and the SSD will not be active during playback.

This depends on the quality of the RAM sticks I guess. A reason why I'm kindda interested in Ryzen CPUs. Memory has direct access to the CPU, unlike Intel.

There's actually a tweak where you can load the OS from a USB stick (or from Network) onto RAM, and then have everything run in memory. Meant to put up a wiki on how to do this, but havn't had the time to do this properly.

Regarding the latest firmware, I was postponing the update, since I'm using LMS and Squeezelite
and I have read in the "Snakeoil Firmware - 1.1.9 (Blind Testing Update 9)" topic that there are some problems with LMS,
so I have decided to wait a little bit more and to do the upgrade after all the small bugs are ironed out.

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If I decide to try the latest firmware, is it possible to go back to the 1.1.8 if I encounter some problems?
Do I just drag and drop the old .fw file in the SnakeOil window?

Yes, you can re-upload the older firmware to get to the previous state.