What Is the Definition of Computer Memory?
Video Transcript What Is the Definition of Computer Memory? I’m Jonathon Ayers with Network for Success and today we are going to talk about “What is computer memory?” Computer memory, that’s a great subject because there are so many different types of memory that your computer actually has. What’s the most common one that we all think about? I guess we all think about storage space. We’ve got thousands of photos, where are we going to put them, let’s put them into memory. What type of memory is that? Most likely a hard drive and today we have hard drives that have just gotten huge in size; 320 gigabytes, 500 gigabytes, a terabyte. These are huge numbers you could store a hundred-thousand photographs on a hard drive of that size and that’s what we think about when we think about computer memory. We think about hard drives. But let’s talk about other types of memory. We also have what’s known as random access memory or RAM memory. This memory is used for all of the actions that you do w
