I didn't put enough caveats, I should have said, "the viewpoint that I think phk is trying to express _in this article_ ..." :)

You have written enough publicly that we could probably cook up a GPT2 level simulacrum with your posts. Useful for code reviews, discussions, etc.

Aren't we saying the same thing? The RAM is there to support the disk and the disk holds the data (the asset), so your article is disk centric. If disk was fast enough, there would be no ram. The ram is just a tool to support a latency target.