What is the temporary storage unit on a computer?

Answer 1

Programmers often think of a computer as having only one temporary storage area, the random access memory (RAM).

People using a computer often use a temporary storage location called the "clipboard". See "The what is a temporary holding area in your PC's memory that holds information you want to cut or move from its current location?" for details.

The people who write operating systems and the computer architects that design computer systems and CPUs often use many different temporary storage areas, each one with a different name.

Many of these temporary storage areas are stored in chips of silicon -- see the "What is temporary storage on chips called?" for details.

Other temporary storage areas are stored on the hard drive -- such as the web page cache, the hibernation file, and the virtual memory swap file.

Answer 2

It is called RAM (Random Access Storage) it contains all of the information from programs that you open and run. If the program has data that saves after the program is closed, the data from the program is copied onto the hardrive. If your computer runs out of RAM it cannot continue to run and must be rebooted to clear the RAM.

Answer 3

Temporary storage is known as random-access memory or RAM for short. A user can easily access, read and edit the data in RAM. The data in RAM is volatile, which means that it depends on an electric supply, and can be kept for future use by writing its contents to secondary storage.

Answer 4

temporary files

or just files

Answer 5

cache file

Answer 6

RAM