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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You can always just hook up a SSD and tell the OS to place a page file on it.

Problem is that even the fastest internal SSDs are FAR slower than RAM. The OS knows this and strategically handles moving data to/from a page file in what it thinks will be the most optimal way.

USB just adds even more steps between the drive and RAM, so I don’t think Windows even allows this anymore.

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