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No, the memory chips are RAM, Random Access Memory. These are actual chips that fit into slots on the motherboard. This type of memory is temporary memory that your computer uses for current operations. This can be compared to active consciousness. This is what you're aware of at that moment, what's currently happening.
The hard drive is memory storage. This is long-term memory. Data can be retrieved from here & brought into RAM, & data can be stored here from RAM. But this is long term memory, and is stored on a disk drive separate from but connected to the motherboard.
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What are a temporary storage on chips?
Temporary storage chip -A.K.A hard drive, or memory card, or SD card.
What term refers to the computer physical components such as the monitor and keyboard and memory chips and hard drive?
Hardware
What are Computers temporary storage on chips?
Temporary storage chip -A.K.A hard drive, or memory card, or SD card.
What memory is in the hard drive?
A hard drive is static or nonvolatile memory.
How is memory organized in a computer?
Memory in a normal desktop computer today is organized in two different places:In the physical memory chips, attached to your motherboard.In a "paging file" on the hard drive of your pc.One must not confuse the hard drive of being memory, as it is simply just long term data storage.Memory is further organized into just regular memory, or what is called virtual memory. Virtual memory can exist on the memory chips, and on your hard drive in the paging file.On the next level, memory is organized on a per program basis. A program loads up, takes what it needs, then continues on working. As the program needs to store more information in the memory, it make take up more and more. That is why if you load a 20 page word document, it would take up more space than a two page word document.And memory optimizers simply do not work. All they do is move memory from the memory chips to your hard drive, making it seem like they are actually working. They actually make programs slower, since they have to reload that memory from the hard drive, into the memory.
What types of computer chips are volatile?
The Random Access Memory (RAM) chip is volatile, and any data not saved to the hard drive will be lost on switching off the computer.
What are the features of logical and physical memory?
physical memory is the actual sticks of memory that you put inside your computer. it is generally faster than logical memory. logical memory is similar to physical memory except imagine all the data on the memory chips on a file in your hard drive. it is usually much slower than physical memory, and it can even damage your hard drive if used in excess. (read/write times increase so the hard drive disk heads have to move faster/more often which puts more wear and tear on the hard drive)
Is chips a software or hardware?
Memory chips are considered to be hardware. Compute hardware is considered to be any physical component. This also includes things such as the keyboard, mouse, monitor, and hard drive.
Is chips hardware or software?
Memory chips are considered to be hardware. Compute hardware is considered to be any physical component. This also includes things such as the keyboard, mouse, monitor, and hard drive.
How do the average memory chips in a computer work?
The average memory chips in a computer work by storing data temporarily and allowing faster access to programs than a hard drive. The speed allows for less disk requests and makes the system faster.
Does the hard drive have the most memory in a computer?
matters your hard drive can hold 5gb or 500gb in lmost all cases yes hard drive has most memory.
How does a computer store data?
When you save a file, the file will be transmitted from the Random Access Memory's Temporary Files to the HDD (Hard Disk/Hard Drive), which is a disc encased in metal, or the SSD (Solid State Drive), which are chips incased in metal.
