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These kinds of similies make less and less sense nowadays because we've got nvme storage nowadays, and that can be as fast as 7GByte/s. That's a lot faster then the RAM in most devices today. And with less latency too.

RAMs differentiating factor is increasingly just that it can handle a lot of read/write cycles, not it's speed. And that doesn't map to anything in biology

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> These kinds of similies make less and less sense nowadays because we've got nvme storage nowadays, and that can be as fast as 7GByte/s. That's a lot faster then the RAM in most devices today. And with less latency too.

7 GB/s is the low end of the DDR3 performance range; DDR3 is 17 years old. Meanwhile, DDR5 performance ranges from about 33.5 GB/s to about 69 GB/s. RAM latency, even on DDR3, is measured in nanoseconds; NVMe latency is measured in microseconds, making it about three orders of magnitude higher.

By quantity, most devices are low-end and old androids. But I admit, I might have phrased my comment poorly. I didn't mean to imply that high end RAM has the same performance profile as high end NVMe storage

Wat? NVMe storage is much slower than RAM. And orders of magnitude slower than VRAM.

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