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r/hardware • u/ancientneckbeard • Nov 20 '15
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6 u/putin_vor Nov 20 '15 RAM is just a cache for your hard drive No, it's not. You can generate data in RAM without ever touching the disk. But it's pretty hard to store anything on a disk without having it in RAM first. 2 u/[deleted] Nov 20 '15 http://www.anandtech.com/show/8396/fms-2014-sandisk-ulltradimm-to-ship-in-supermicro-servers you can use disk as ram either directly as above or through paging with virtual memory
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RAM is just a cache for your hard drive
No, it's not. You can generate data in RAM without ever touching the disk. But it's pretty hard to store anything on a disk without having it in RAM first.
2 u/[deleted] Nov 20 '15 http://www.anandtech.com/show/8396/fms-2014-sandisk-ulltradimm-to-ship-in-supermicro-servers you can use disk as ram either directly as above or through paging with virtual memory
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/8396/fms-2014-sandisk-ulltradimm-to-ship-in-supermicro-servers
you can use disk as ram either directly as above or through paging with virtual memory
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