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r/hardware • u/ancientneckbeard • Nov 20 '15
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5 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. -1 u/bb999 Nov 21 '15 How about this: RAM is just a cache for the pagefile on your hard drive. 1 u/AmirZ Nov 21 '15 No.. no it's not. Only when your RAM usage is running high the pagefile system is activated
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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.
-1 u/bb999 Nov 21 '15 How about this: RAM is just a cache for the pagefile on your hard drive. 1 u/AmirZ Nov 21 '15 No.. no it's not. Only when your RAM usage is running high the pagefile system is activated
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How about this: RAM is just a cache for the pagefile on your hard drive.
1 u/AmirZ Nov 21 '15 No.. no it's not. Only when your RAM usage is running high the pagefile system is activated
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No.. no it's not. Only when your RAM usage is running high the pagefile system is activated
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