Why can’t you buy external ram that plugs into a usb like you can for an ssd?

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Why can’t you buy external ram that plugs into a usb like you can for an ssd?

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Ram is what the cpu speak with directly, usb is too slow and the cpu can’t access it directly so it’s not possible

Interestingly enough you could buy ram expansion packs on some computers back in the 1980s, as computers often hard connectors directly connected to the cpu for game cartridges

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