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Yes you can if you don't have enough ram for a operation but it is extremely slow.
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What is a specific location in a on a storage medium?
Hard drive and radom acces memory (HD+RAM) Hard drive and radom acces memory (HD+RAM) Eric Nerd
What are the 2 types internal memory?
The RAM (random access memory) and the HDD (hard disk drive).
What is meant by the term virtual memory?
Virtual memory is referring to the RAM and the temporary space used on the hard drive. The other definition is the file on the hard drive used to simulate RAM.
Is an area of memory that looks and acts like a hard drive but because it is memory it is much faster?
RAM Drive
What is a another name for a primary storage?
RAM
What is the relationship between RAM and a Hard Drive?
RAM(random access memory) speeds up a computer's speed when it comes to performing tasks, a hard drive enables it to do hard tasks easily.
What stores memory on the hard drive?
Perhaps you are referring to Virtual RAM.
What is memory stored on the hard drive?
Perhaps you are referring to Virtual RAM.
Difference between virtual memory and RAM?
Answer(Techsupport)Resolution: RAM and virtual memory are two different things. Virtual memory allows you to use a portion of your hard drive as though it were RAM. Your hard drive is up to 100 times slower than RAM, so virtual memory is much slower than RAM. When you upgrade your RAM, you can reduce or eliminate the use of virtual memory. Upgrading RAM makes memory available to complete tasks previously handled by virtual memory.
Is cache memory equal to virtual memory?
No! ; Cache memory is integrated in the CPU. Virtual memory is a part of the hard drive that the OS use as ram memory, when running out of real ram memory.
The method of using the hard drive as though it were RAM is called?
virtual memory
Is the amount of memory in ram larger than hard drive storage?
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