Why can’t we just use SSDs with 128GB as RAM on our Computers? It seems way better than 8 or 16 GB.
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Speed and reliability.
Ssd are a lot slower than ram, so your computer would definitely slow down a lot, also ssds degrade over time if you write to them a lot which will happen if you use them as ram, also ram is volatile memory, meaning it looses all the data if it has no power, this seems bad, but it’s also good: if something goes wrong, you can just turn the computer off and back on again and the ram will be reset, you would either need additional checks so that data that remains on it won’t cause problems if you reboot the computer
Also adding memory doesn’t necessarily make you computer faster, 16 GB is plenty enough for most people, maybe too much for the average user, however there are application where more is needed
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