What is the difference between flash memory and RAM?
Technically speaking, RAM (random access memory) is any medium of storing information electronically so it can be accessed in a random sequence. This means some things we don’t normally call RAM are also RAM. Hard drives, floppy discs, CD/DVD drives are all examples of data storage we don’t generally refer to as RAM. However, they have identical characteristics. The term RAM for electronic memory came at a time when mechanical mediums of data storage had such constraints as to require information to be recovered in a specific sequence. RAM was a revolutionary development in computing. It could be compared to the difference between a VCR and DVD player. The video cassette tape is strictly sequential in the order it could recover data. In this case, recover data means watch your recorded show. You had to queue it up to the spot (past the commercials) where you wanted to start viewing. Part of the beauty of DVD is that it can access information from the disc in just about any order, just
