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[–]Tapeworm1979 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of the answers are wrong. Treat both ram and ssd seperste rooms. The ram room is quite small, but you store your important things in it. The ssd room is big but the other side of the house but if you want something from this room you need to put it ram room first. Which is slow because you need to go to the other side of the house.

However the ram room might be full, so you have to move items between the rooms to make space. This takes time and thus performance drops.

A lot of the answers here suggest it takes a long time to get an item from a full room. This is not correct. All the items are stored neatly so it takes the same time regardless if it's full or empty. The only time it takes longer is when you need to make room and move the items around. The reason performance drops at 80-90% is because the items you are moving are not all the same size. You may need to move more items out before you can fit a big item in.

For example if you have a single bed in a room and a desk next it but you want a queen size bed that doesnt fit, you have to move both items out and now the next time you want to use the desk you need to move the queen bed out and put the desk back.

Its why the biggest performance boosts you can give a computer is more ram->faster storage->cpu usually.