RAM is called Random Access Memory. It is temporary storage and loses all of its data if the electricity is cut off to it. For example, if you open Microsoft Word, that program is loaded into RAM so that your CPU can access it faster. Now if you are typing away and have not saved your work and the computer shuts off then you will have lost everything you typed. Thus, temporary storage. On the other hand, hard drives hold data forever until you delete the data.
You will need to take your iMac apart and replace the hard drive. A better solution is to connect an external hard drive to your Mac via the Firewire port.
Hard drive and radom acces memory (HD+RAM) Hard drive and radom acces memory (HD+RAM) Eric Nerd
The RAM (random access memory) and the HDD (hard disk drive).
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.
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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.
Perhaps you are referring to Virtual RAM.
Perhaps you are referring to Virtual 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.
Yes you can if you don't have enough ram for a operation but it is extremely slow.
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.