If RAM is cheap, why don't we load everything to RAM and run it from there?

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00:00 Question
00:44 Accepted answer (Score 181)
04:12 Answer 2 (Score 72)
06:37 Answer 3 (Score 44)
07:55 Answer 4 (Score 9)
09:05 Thank you

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/637302/i...

Accepted answer links:
[PCI board with DIMM sockets]: https://web.archive.org/web/201309011920...
[not cheap]: https://web.archive.org/web/201308300157...
[RAM disk]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_drive

Answer 2 links:
[page cache]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_cache

Answer 3 links:
[4 GB RAM = $32 - $36]: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...
[64 GB SSD = $69 - $76]: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/...
[1 TB HDD = $80]: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...

Answer 4 links:
http://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/primo.../

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