This is so true, the world has changed greatly and not everyone has gotten the memo. I saw a really cool device made by Texas Memory systems which was a &quot;ram disk&quot; that was all ram with disk backing, and when you lost power it flushed to disk. I wanted something that worked better for a storage paradigm and designed&#x2F;invented a network accessible memory appliance[1]. Basically using ethernet packets you could store 8K integrity protected chunks right there on the network. Initially I wanted to use a typical low power CPU with a bunch of DRAM attached but the CPU bottleneck got in the way, so we redesigned&#x2F;rebuilt it out of FPGAs so that it had a couple of terabytes of RAID protected RAM in an appliance with a very simple network protocol for storing and fetching 8K blocks out of what was essentially a linear address space. Two of these on different power subsystems provided all of the fault tolerance you needed and you could have a terabyte of &#x27;structured&#x27; data live from the moment your computer booted (made for very fast recovery from reboot).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;patents&#x2F;US8316074" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;patents&#x2F;US8316074</a>