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There used to be a product called ZeusRAM which was a small (like 8GB) SSD with a matching amount of DRAM. In normal use all operations were done on the DRAM, and when power was lost it would use charge held in a super-cap to flush the data out to the NAND.

Haven't seen any purely volatile drives, though.



The Gigabyte i-RAM from 2005/2006, featured in a LTT video.


So when power is restored it restores the RAM and turns back on like nothing happened?


Correct.


Oh wow lol, this reminds me of Windows Vista days and Microsoft’s ReadyBoost for using a USB flash drive as extra memory for disk caching because it was hammering peoples disks. Good times.




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