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by lordCarbonFiber 3170 days ago
RAM is at least 10x faster than SSD memory so Im not 100% sure where you're coming from. If you're doing any kind of VM work (or just want to use more than two or three electron powered desktop applications at a time) 8GB RAM in 2017 is going to be pretty tight on a development machine.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR4_SDRAM -- see peak transfer rate