nuclearhammer comments on RAM is cheap now

submitted 2 months ago by BCsven@lemmy.ca to c/buildapc@lemmy.ca

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4.7 Gigs of RAM for about $5...so cheap right now

[–] nuclearhammer@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is there a significance to the RAM part of the name or did they just need to differentiate from DVD-ROM? CD-RW is basically the same thing, right?

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca [S] 2 points 2 months ago

I think it was because people new the terms Read Only Memory and Random Access Memory, so they just grabbed RAM as a buzz word. DVD/CD-RW makes more sense really. Unless they were trying to bring attention to competition of tape storage being sequential access while DVD could be Random Access.

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[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 point 2 months ago

They were optimised to offer RAM capabilities. Much higher rewrite ceiling, write verification in hardware, no finalisation required etc.

Discontinued in 2019.

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