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How long does it take RAM to lose that data though? Most laptops take far more time to remove the ram than a PC and it's soldered down in a lot of cases.
by faceplanted 7y ago
How long does it take RAM to lose that data though? Most laptops take far more time to remove the ram than a PC and it's soldered down in a lot of cases.
- jacquesm 7y agoSuprisingly long. I've played around with that a bit a while ago and sometimes up to minutes later you could still recover recognizable bitmaps. But definitely not something you should rely on if you want a bit perfect copy, the first bits start to flip immediately upon power loss, some of them take a lot longer and our brain is pretty good at such reconstruction from noisy data, especially if it knows what it is looking at. I guess the higher the RAM capacity the shorter it would be because of the decrease in physical cell size.
- beatgammit 7y agoIt doesn't need to be that long if you can plug in a bootable disk and copy the memory off.