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So, thought on SSD designs ...?
So, since an SSD is basically a large chunk of system RAM placed onto a harddrive interface, is it theoretically possible to install a secondary-controller SSD of 1Tb & set it as a swapdrive - essentially upgrading My system RAM to 1Tb? ... although it's slower because of the SATA connector limitations.
Actually, I do know that RAM / NVRAM are different & both operations are known to Me.
I was more asking about the software-rngineering side of how the major OS / kernels use the swapfiles, & if it would theoretically be programmatically fast enough to make a difference for the WinXP / Win7 gaming I do. [Keep in mind that the older systems are using DDR2 at around 670-800Mhz with P4 processors around 2.2ghz].
3 Answers
- Anonymous8 months agoFavorite Answer
No
A SSD uses Flash memory modules which is a form of Non-Volatile memory
RAM uses DRAM memory modules which is a Volatile form of memory. Once the system is powered off then the information on the RAM will be erased.
What Intel hopes to accomplish with Optane is to integrate system RAM with storage.
There are also small amounts of SRAM on the processor.
- fodaddy19Lv 78 months ago
Nope.
1. An SSD is not system RAM placed onto a hard drive interface.
2. Many SSD's don't use SATA since it's bottleneck at this point.
- Gordon BLv 78 months ago
No. SSD is still slower than system ram, even if you have an ssd using m2 its still slower than ram.
