From 9db07d9b50eee728b7df9e76a920fc09112fefe4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: raghavbhartia Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 15:11:29 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Elaborate the blurring line between hard disks and ram (#22448) --- guide/english/computer-hardware/ram/index.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/guide/english/computer-hardware/ram/index.md b/guide/english/computer-hardware/ram/index.md index 0dca5aad87..0ab8a796a0 100644 --- a/guide/english/computer-hardware/ram/index.md +++ b/guide/english/computer-hardware/ram/index.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: RAM ## RAM RAM stands for random-access memory, alternatively referred to as **main memory**, **primary memory**, or **system memory**. It is a piece of computer hardware where the data that your computer is currently working on is stored.
-Unlike hard drives, RAM is a volatile memory and requires power to keep the data accessible. If the computer is turned off, all data contained in RAM is lost. New users often confuse RAM with disk drive space. See [memory definition](https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/m/memory.htm) for a comparison between memory and storage.
+Unlike hard drives, RAM is a volatile memory and requires power to keep the data accessible. If the computer is turned off, all data contained in RAM is lost. New users often confuse RAM with disk drive space. See [memory definition](https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/m/memory.htm) for a comparison between memory and storage.
However, there are different use-cases like virtual memory where some portion of disk is allocated for the memory to support large applications which cant fit in RAM. Also there is something called RAM-disk where a portion of RAM is allocated for disk so that the access for those disk files is very fast. ### Types of RAM: