Does it ever make sense to use RAM Disk to force RAM allocation for tempdb with SQL Server 2008?

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Does it ever make sense to use RAM Disk to force RAM allocation for tempdb with SQL Server 2008

If I give all RAM to SQL Server, it will use it's own pattern to determine what RAM to allocate for what. If I allocate portion of RAM as RAM Disk and put tempdb into that disk it will force RAM allocation for tempdb. This could be helpful if there are usage scenarios where SQL Server refuses to allocate RAM for tempdb and uses it for something else. So I wonder if those usage scenarios exist where it makes sense to force RAM allocation for tempdb by using RAM Disk, thus overriding SQL Server...

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I'll suggest that moving tempdb to SSDs (which you can do in a cluster, too, as of SQL Server 2012)...

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