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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:
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> 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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