It sounds like the guy who wrote this piece needs to get out more. Surely he could find something more worthwhile to complain about.
I've never heard of anything so ridiculous. Comparing the speed of a hard drive to RAM is preposterous. RAM is electronic whereas a hard disk has mechanical moving parts.
Of course it's going to be slower!!!!!!
It seems to me that we're so spoiled nowadays with ultra-powerful, cheap hardware that unless it happens five minutes ago when we click on the mouse, we're not satisfied.