Comments on: What’s the Diff: RAM vs. Storage

By: Tiffany Scarlett

Tiffany Scarlett — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 22:20:15 +0000

I wish you had discussed numbers on here.
So, for somebody who generally uses the laptop for school work and streaming, would 8gb ram be enough, or should I shoot for 16gb?
And ssd… is 128gb enough?

By: Yahiaoui Imad Eddine

Yahiaoui Imad Eddine — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 15:24:24 +0000

In reply to Niels Keurentjes. I have a question. Is ram used to store as hdd or ssd . Or to process like cpu?

By: Dustin Wyatt

Dustin Wyatt — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 15:24:54 +0000

he data stored in RAM can be accessed almost instantly regardless of where in memory it is stored, so it’s very fast — milliseconds fast.

Drives access data on that timescale. RAM accesses data on the order of nanoseconds.

By: Zaer

Zaer — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 02:22:11 +0000

Hey,
I want to increase the performance of my laptop. I use allot of fl studio and tons of tabs for browser lol. I’m confused which one should I add – SSD or RAM

My laptop specs – HP pavilion, Intel i5, 4 GB ram, 2.6 GHz

By: European Con

European Con — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 16:52:24 +0000

So RAM isn’t that important to people who just browse and use Word for say writing a CV?

By: Niels Keurentjes

Niels Keurentjes — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 07:11:40 +0000

In reply to cartman94501.

Both explanations are technically correct. A hard drive, or any kind of technology based on spinning platters accessed with a magnetic head, is inherently optimized for sequential access as true “random access” requires constantly moving the head around, which is a physical operation and therefore magnitudes slower.

So yes, RAM, SSDs and hard drives are all random access devices, while tapes are sequential access devices with no true possibilty for random access.

Also yes, RAM and SSDs are the devices not incurring an inherently huge speed penalty for randomly accessing their data. Hard drive performance tapers off immensely once random access is required.

This is also the chief reason defragmentation used to be so important with computers yet is barely ever heard of anymore these days – it’s only relevant for HDDs, not for SSDs.

By: Steven P. Mitchell

Steven P. Mitchell — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 07:32:25 +0000

In reply to Robin Childs. Hopefully, it comes with Windows 10 Professional and not with Windows 10 Home Edition...

By: Steven P. Mitchell

Steven P. Mitchell — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 07:32:19 +0000

Have you been able to identify the cause of the 100% disk usage problem that seems to be a particular problem for Windows 10 Home Edition?

By: emil9770

emil9770 — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 06:38:46 +0000

Does the backblaze client process and encrypt the files in the ram memory or on the hard disk?