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Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Why do SSDs have a more limited number of times data can be written to them, but RAM memory can handle loads of re-writes?

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Why do SSDs have a more limited number of times data can be written to them, but RAM memory can handle loads of re-writes?

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Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

In a similar vein, why can we not use the technology of RAM to prolong the life-cycle of an SSD?

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The camera hack is really cool - i love stuff like that.

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