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| Thread ID: 30100 | 2003-02-10 09:16:00 | Defining data capacity to PC newbies... | Ichthus (165) | Press F1 |
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| 120029 | 2003-02-11 20:44:00 | I knew we had a thread (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) here about memory vs hard drive.. | honeylaser (814) | ||
| 120030 | 2003-02-12 01:14:00 | This is how my brother explained Hard Drive, and RAM to me (is this waht we are talking about??) Think of the Hard Drive as a Filing Cabinet...The bigger it is, the more files, etc it can hold inside it. Think of the RAM as a desk...The bigger the top of the desk is, the more files you can put onto it, at one time... Eg, the bigger your RAM is, the more files, programs you can have running at once... Hope this clears things up a bit more? |
caffy (2665) | ||
| 120031 | 2003-02-12 03:07:00 | >Think of the RAM as a desk... .. with the added feature of Mission Impossible. "This paper will self-destruct in 5 seconds". Turn the power off and it's gone so save documents to the filing cabinet regularly (in case of power failure). |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 120032 | 2003-02-12 20:30:00 | > > Think of the RAM as a desk .. . > > .. with the added feature of Mission Impossible. > "This paper will self-destruct in 5 seconds". Turn > the power off and it's gone so save documents to the > filing cabinet regularly (in case of power failure). Now to try mopping up the coffee which is on my keyboard. |
honeylaser (814) | ||
| 120033 | 2003-02-12 20:39:00 | well i usuallly compare a hardrive to a library. partitions are like the vairous sections of the library. i guess the table you go to look at your books is like the ram :) | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 120034 | 2003-02-12 21:04:00 | I always use the filing cabinet/desktop analogy. The HD is the filing cabinet. Best kept orderly and cleaned up every so often, old bits of lunch etc, give it a sweep out and make sure everything is where it should be. RAM is your desktop. Nice to have plenty of smooth flat space to work with all your various tools neatly in place, not cluttered with rubbish from two weeks ago and pref. without sticky bits of jam off toast and wet coffee rings. The CPU is the speed and effecinecy with which you can bring stuff from your filing cabinet and process it on your desktop and then do whatever is requried. That's how I explain it to ppl and very often it's :O is that how it works. (I know this is not about size) (Think of a shoebox on a truck and how many trucks on a container freighter maybe.) cheers mark :) c |
mark c (247) | ||
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