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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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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Rule of thumb: every step away from your processor is an extra order of magnitude.

Registers work in nanoseconds; cache in microseconds; RAM in milliseconds; storage disks in seconds.

You can *absolutely* page memory to SSD. It will be hilariously awful and horribly slow.