Expandable memory for tablet = RAM?

[paulri]

I'm thinking about buying a new tablet. I am seeing this one on sale at BB: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsun...4gb-wi-fi-oxford-gray/6506325.p?skuId=6506325

The product description has something that I'm not sure about. You can see it below, or go to the link and click on the Specifications section.

Now can I actually increase the RAM available for this, by inserting a microSD card, or has the creator of this product description page erroneously conflated two different types of memory? I was aware that you can increase the storage in phones by connecting memory cards to them, but I had not heard about increasing RAM.

 

[Bottom_Feeder]

Yes, the latter. The MicroSD slot is just for additional storage only.

 

[Furious]

MicroSD does not expand your RAM, 4GB is plenty ram for the average person. On some tablets you can use virtual memory also known as RAM Plus this will offset some of the load on to the system storage when needed.

 

[paulri]

Thanks, I had never heard of that before.

Do you have any experience with Ram Plus? I just looked it up, and someone was saying to turn it off on a phone, because you would end up with flash storage constantly having data being written onto it, and your storage drive would kick the bucket sooner. Would this issue also arise on a tablet? Not sure what type of storage is used on tablets.

FWIW I'm thinking of a Samsung Galaxy S6 Lite: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsun...4gb-wi-fi-oxford-gray/6506325.p?skuId=6506325

MicroSD does not expand your RAM, 4GB is plenty ram for the average person. On some tablets you can use virtual memory also known as RAM Plus this will offset some of the load on to the system storage when needed.

 

[UG_Passat]

Thanks, I had never heard of that before.

Do you have any experience with Ram Plus? I just looked it up, and someone was saying to turn it off on a phone, because you would end up with flash storage constantly having data being written onto it, and your storage drive would kick the bucket sooner. Would this issue also arise on a tablet? Not sure what type of storage is used on tablets.

FWIW I'm thinking of a Samsung Galaxy S6 Lite: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsun...4gb-wi-fi-oxford-gray/6506325.p?skuId=6506325

You can't really turn it off. It's always on and you choose between 2 GB and 4GB.

 

[paulri]

Interesting. I saw a video on youtube showing a setting that you toggle, to have this function.
Perhaps that was just for the particular samsung phone?

You can't really turn it off. It's always on and you choose between 2 GB and 4GB.

 

[alarmguy]

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