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Is a computer's DRAM size not as important once we get a Solid State Drive?

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Mar 15, 2026372 views
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I am thinking of getting a Dell X11 netbook, and it can go up to 8GB of DRAM, together with a 256GB Solid State Drive. So in that case, it can handle quite a bit of Virtual PC running Linux, and Win XP, etc. But is the 8GB of RAM not so important any more? Won't 2GB or 4GB be quite good if a Solid …

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RAM chips are much faster then a SSD. Much faster. I don't have any hard and fast numbers, but I believe that the max read time for a standard spinning hard disk is something like 50 GB / sec, SSD is 300 GB / sec, RAM is pretty much instant. Scratch…

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