Originally posted by KevinLam
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Just remember that even the least efficient software is designed to work on someone's machine, so there's an upper limit on how much RAM you'll ever need to be able to run a program. That limit might be on the order of tens of gigabytes (I've heard 40-50 for certain well-known pipelines). But I don't think there's a reason to complement that with SSDs, because they're definitely not going to buy you any additional speed as virtual memory.
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