Today, I would like to ask a question to the reader asks: “What’s the difference between a hard disk and memory?” That’s a good question, and it is often confused. To answer your question, there will be a good idea to start with foundations. A hard disk is a matter of mechanics to the size of a book with the registration information on your computer. The main components of a hard drive is composed of plates or hard drives, all stacked and high-speed rotation. A pin, which runs the plates. And finally, an arm propulsion, travel throughout your hard drive to read or write.

Storage or RAM (Random Access Memory), as it is known, consists of a series of chips, sockets on the motherboard. Given that the RAM may, on the motherboard, it can easily be extended or replaced. RAM, the hard drive stores also information to that confusion. Well, we have an understanding of what the aircraft, which can be attributed to differences. A hard disk is used for long-term storage, and that is what we do not have volatile memory. What this means that if you have information on your hard drive is maintained.

Everything that happens in your computer on your operating system on the songs you hear, in your hard drive. Your computer uses RAM as a temporary internment, and the volatile data storage inside the RAM is removed once the power is lost. RAM and hard disks differ significantly from the actual capacity storage. Your hard drive is on average about 80 to 300GB. While the contrary, a desktop typical 512 MB-2 GB of memory are installed. Given that the temporary internment RAM, it is not necessary that the large memory capacity, as your hard drive. Your computer, you can access data from the RAM much faster than on a hard disk. This is because, unlike a hard disk, where the scanning arm must be hard to access information, RAM has no moving parts, and the data that are almost immediately.

Let me give you an example of how memory and the hard drive of your collaboration. If you have an application to launch a word processor as the computer accessing the hard drive, reads data, the opening program, and invites the data in RAM. Every word you enter into the world of work from memory. I am sure you know, what happens when you halfway by typing your Word document, and you can suddenly lose all your efforts will be lost. However, if the document was recorded before the power failure occurred when the document was written to the hard disk. So when the electricity supply is restored, start your computer, you run the word processor, open the document recorded, and where you left off.

To summarize, the hard drives are constantly loading of data in RAM. The data stored in the memory of work remain until it is no longer needed, or if you restart your system. Both cameras can store data, Memory is limited in time, a hard drive is permanent. I hope that this article could you have a better understanding of your computer, two shops, and the differences between them.