@lemmington_steele@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 months agoWhy do SSDs have a more limited number of times data can be written to them, but RAM memory can handle loads of re-writes?message-square39fedilinkarrow-up1183arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1179arrow-down1message-squareWhy do SSDs have a more limited number of times data can be written to them, but RAM memory can handle loads of re-writes?@lemmington_steele@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 months agomessage-square39fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareXylight (Photon dev)cakelinkfedilinkEnglish10•11 months agoSlightly misleading, the DRAM chips do that themselves so the kernel doesn’t have to do that.
minus-squaregrahamszlinkfedilink6•11 months agoSome very early systems did do it at kernel level, but yeah you are correct. Though I’d also consider the dram chips to be part of the computer and DRAM refresh makes up a good part of your phones battery consumption at standby.
Slightly misleading, the DRAM chips do that themselves so the kernel doesn’t have to do that.
Some very early systems did do it at kernel level, but yeah you are correct. Though I’d also consider the dram chips to be part of the computer and DRAM refresh makes up a good part of your phones battery consumption at standby.