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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
(Unverified)Nov 10th 2009 5:11PM
In contemporary usage, memory usually refers to a form of semiconductor storage known as random-access memory (RAM) and sometimes other forms of fast but temporary storage. Similarly, storage today more commonly refers to mass storage — optical discs, forms of magnetic storage like hard disk drives, and other types slower than RAM, but of a more permanent nature. Historically, memory and storage were respectively called main memory and secondary storage. The terms internal memory and external memory are also used.
The contemporary distinctions are helpful, because they are also fundamental to the architecture of computers in general. The distinctions also reflect an important and significant technical difference between memory and mass storage devices, which has been blurred by the historical usage of the term storage.
(Unverified)Nov 12th 2009 7:01PM
So tell me what is a SanDisk? Or a USB smart drive? Or any of the other myriad external "drives" that are really flash memory?
Get a life guys. I have been round computers since before you were a gleam in you daddy's eyes and memory is a term for any and all storage availble for a computer, hard drive, floppy, PCMCIA, USB, CDROM (see that M), flash, RAM and even core memory.
(Unverified)Nov 12th 2009 10:38AM
Give 'em a break. Probably less than 5% of the readers/commenters here have ever heard the term "main frame!" I've got $5 that says very, very few of us know what a punch card is and even fewer have ever seen one. So, I'm sure the vast majority of the commenters here don't consider a HDD "memory." Remember, people under 25 think their generation invented electricity, fire, and the wheel (at least that's the impression I get from my kids)!
(Unverified)Nov 12th 2009 10:45AM
and so...what is sold state disk, cache in a hard drive, etc.?
(Unverified)Nov 12th 2009 5:29PM
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