How to offload my hard disk? [closed]

Question

I want to minimize the loading time of Skyrim and I have a ramdisk and I softlink one of the big .bsa files in the Skyrim data folder but I didn't notice much improvement. There are 3 .bsa files over 1GB in my data folder. Which one is the better to offload my hard disk? Here are the some more files: Textures, Meshes and Voices. What is the .esm files? Is this good at all?

Edit: Save skyrim.esm on my ramdisk but the game doesn't start.

Edit: Using Process.exe and monitoring TESV.exe the top ten files by the menu Tools->File Summary on my box is:

1. meshes.bsa
2. Textures folder
3. Skyrim.esm
4. Sound folder
5. Voices.bsa
6. Strings folder
7. music folder

The file textures.bsa seems to be totaly irrelevant.

Edit: Here is why skyrim.esm doesn't work on the ramdisk. It's because NTFS doesn't allow hardlinks accross partition: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=355025.

Edit: To the people that vote to close please read my question. Unlike Tom Wijsman in his comment I don't write bs! Skyrim.esm doesn't load from a ramdisk and the reason is written here. READ BEFORE YOU POST!!!

EDIT: Please vote for reopen? TIA.

Answer

Wouldn't really buy you anything. RAM disks take away real RAM from your disk cache, which is the better place to locate big and small files. For instance, it will store only the parts of the file in RAM that you actually use, whereas a RAMdisk has to keep whole files in RAM.

Now, you're worried about Bethesda doing a poor job, but that RAM cache is managed by Windows, i.e. Microsoft. And since it's such a critical core component, it's well-optimized.

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