There is a good reason for that: Power consumption.
A large SDRAM disk would require refresh logic etc. So you will end up
with something closely resembling bad notebook PC.
John Bradford wrote:
>
> I've seen loads of solid state devices based on flash memory, but few
> that are based on battery backed DRAM :-(.
>
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