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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
There aren't two types of RAM. The lower figure (2/3/4GB) is RAM. The 64/128/256GB is storage.
I don't think CC uses a lot of RAM actually. Not unless you have hundreds of thousands of books in your library.
For syncing books, I expect it's the storage speed that matters, not the amount of RAM.
Edit: Just a thought, I was only thinking of metadata.db (or quite likely JSON) in terms of RAM and that's pretty small even with thousands of books. Covers are another matter. I would expect CC is flushing that metadata to storage, though and not just keeping everything in RAM. A12 isn't just faster for general processing, it's also got faster storage compared to A8 so I expect transferring from RAM to storage would be quicker, too.
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You can call it RAM verses storage if you like, it's all some form of RAM. RAM simply stands for Random Access Memory, it's the technology, not how it's used.
Back when they were beta testing CC for iOS, CC would blow up trying to sync the first time with Calibre with my library. According to the developer, the issue was that my old original iPad mini had very limited internal memory and I had a big enough library where it didn't all fit. My iPad pro didn't have a problem with it. The developer made some changes to the code to get it to work, but it was still a lot faster syncing on my iPad pro verses my iPad mini. The difference isn't as obvious on my iPad mini 4, but there definitely is a difference.