Isnt ram basiclly an SSD?

[IsaacDaGrazin]

just smaller storage and its volatile (i think thats the word) so when you turn it off you lose the data?

or is it NO WHERE NEAR

what made me think of this was playing cs:go

[zlolslavez]

Not really since SSD's aren't volatile. 

[Indus Monk]

No where near!

[ReesZRB]

Not really since SSD's aren't volatile. 

This and....

They are way faster

[Indus Monk]

Not really since SSD's aren't volatile. 

correct me if i am wrong but... ram don't have memory controller unlike an ssd?

[QueenDemetria]

Well, they are both memory, but both very different from each other.

[NeatSquidYT]

RAM is much much faster and is made to be used as primary storage, so no.

[xgn]

This and....

They are way faster

SSD isn't faster than ram because every chip has a max ram bandwitdh and with ramdisk the info has to be sent to windows and back to hardware again higher CAS.

[Guest]

nowhere near...
RAM --> Random Access Memory

SSD --> Solid State Drive

One stores data, one temporarily stores data 

If that was the case, RAM would be a hell of a lot cheaper or SSD's would be a hell of a lot more expensive.

[Stefan1024]

Flash and DRAM both store data by using charge. Also both use a FET to do so.

So yes they are somehow similar, but the FET propertiers are very different (floating gat für the flash) and so is the electrical charakteristic.

[Arc_Jester]

This and....

They are way faster

You have it backwards, RAM is many times faster than SSDs or any flash memory.

[ReesZRB]

SSD isn't faster than ram because every chip has a max ram bandwitdh and with ramdisk the info has to be sent to windows and back to hardware again higher CAS.

I forgot to put the ram is way faster

[Sauron]

Well, it still uses flash memory, but the way it handles data is very, very different. Being volatile is the major difference, but there are others too; it doesn't have a dedicated controller because it answers directly to the cpu, it is connected directly to the cpu with a bus that is faster than even pcie (the ddr4 bus is faster than pcie 3.0 16x) and generally uses faster chips too.

[IsaacDaGrazin]

Ohhhh thanks everyone! makes sense now x3

[incarnate]

correct me if i am wrong but... ram don't have memory controller unlike an ssd?

The memory controller for the ram is on the cpu, used to be part of the North bridge way back in the day

[Glenwing]

Maximum theoretical bandwidth:

SATA III SSD: 0.6GB/s

M.2/PCIe Gen3 ×4 SSD: 4.0GB/s

Dual Channel DDR3 1.6GHz: 25.6GB/s

Quad Channel DDR4 3.2GHz: 102.4GB/s

384-bit GDDR5 7GHz: 336.0GB/s

4096-bit HBM2 2GHz: 1024.0GB/s

DRAM is much faster than SSDs, but does not retain data without power.

[harrynowl]

correct me if i am wrong but... ram don't have memory controller unlike an ssd?

SSDs have their own controller though.

 

The memory controller itself (generally referred to as IMC) is on the CPU for modern platforms.

[Coaxialgamer]

Not really , they are actually quite different , and use different technologies ( transistors have a capacitive value , with charge getting out , so it has to be refreshed )

[Nena Trinity]

RAM lose their data once power is gone!