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Samsung Unveils SSD Delivering Speeds of Over 2 GB...
Isn't that called "swap"?
Someone1234
on Jan 8, 2015
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No. Swap or paging is unused RAM "saved for later" (to free up real RAM space). It is never accessed or modified directly from processes except to push it back into RAM when a process requests a memory region which has been paged.
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