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It is very common for new computer users to be confused by what parts in the computer are memory. Although both the hard drive and RAM are considered memory, it is more appropriate to refer to RAM as "memory" or "primary memory" and a hard drive as "storage" or"secondary storage" and not memory.

When a program such as your internet brower is open, it is loaded from your hard drive and placed into RAM, which allows that program to communicate with the processor at higher speeds. Anything you save to your computer such as a picture or video is sent to your hard drive for storage.

When someone asks how much memory is in your computer, it is likely between 1GB and 8GB of Random Access Memory (RAM) and several hundred Gigs of hard disk drive memory (storage). In other words, You will almost always have more hard drive space than RAM.

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