RAM

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RAM

Advantages

  • High speed
  • Temporary memory (volatile)
  • Faster than secondary storage
  • Fastest type of memory in a computer.
  • Consumes less power compared to disk drives hence increasing battery life.

Disadvantages

  • Slower than the CPU cache
  • Not cost friendly
  • Volatile
  • Space limited

Evaluation

RAM is high speed, volatile memory. Whens software applications, documents, and files are opened, they are copied from secondary storage to RAM. They stay in RAM until the files or applications are closed. When a computer boots up, the operating system is copied from secondary storage to RAM

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