SSDs will replace ram

[Princess Luna]

Would it be possible to have something installed directly in RAM were you to have those insane +100GB of memory configs? I know you could never turn the PC off at best put it to sleep since they require constant energy to keep data, but say you just want the fastest possible write/read for a certain application and you actually had the space for it, would it be possible at all? through any means.

[Paradine Sage]

11 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Would it be possible to have something installed directly in RAM were you to have those insane +100GB of memory configs? I know you could never turn the PC off at best put it to sleep since they require constant energy to keep data, but say you just want the fastest possible write/read for a certain application and you actually had the space for it, would it be possible at all? through any means.

That is a RAM Disk.

[othertomperson]

2 hours ago, tlink said:

could you explain why? i can think of a few reasons that involve privacy but maybe im missing some fundamental functionality in this equation?

Privacy and personal data is one prominent reason, but could you imagine having an error in some piece of software and restarting did absolutely nothing because the program in question simply re-used the same data that was still stored from last time with the error, and there was no easy way of deleting this from RAM? Volatile memory gives you a relatively clean start when you boot your machine.