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By Doug Gantenbein Memory has its faults—and not only the human variety. Hard drives, for instance, can hold terabytes cheaply. But they’re slow. Random-access memory (RAM) is fast but expensive, and data in RAM disappear the instant the power goes off. Flash memory is faster than hard drives and cheaper than RAM, and it retains […]https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Headshot__0037_cropped_sudipta-sengupta-300x300.jpg