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100% is ridiculous. But perhaps maybe tests like that can get people to stop referring to non-volatile storage as "memory".
by Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
100% is ridiculous.
But perhaps maybe tests like that can get people to stop referring to non-volatile storage as "memory".
- m4rtink 5y agoIs that wrong ? Often I see RAM refered as memory with nonvolatile memory being reffered as storage. Also there are old (ferite core) and new (NVRAM) technologies that are more or less both, further blurring the distinction.
- Sohcahtoa82 5y ago> Is that wrong ? Yes. > Often I see RAM refered as memory with nonvolatile memory being reffered as storage. That would be the correct nomenclature. > Also there are old (ferite core) and new (NVRAM) technologies that are more or less both, further blurring the distinction. The distinction isn't based on how it's built, but the use case and volatility. Memory is volatile and only intended for storing data for actively running programs. SSDs and NVMe drives are storage, despite them looking like RAM chips, because they are non-volatile. When you remove power, they still have the data. A mobile device's "flash memory", which despite being called "memory", is storage.
- pseudalopex 5y agoTell IBM in 1955. "Magnetic cores are attractive as memory elements because they are small, fast, and they provide non-volatile storage."[1] [1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US2778005A/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US2778005A/en
- npteljes 5y agoI don't much agree with the RAM = "memory" thing. "Memory" colloquially is for remembering things. RAM and storage are both for the computer to remember things, so it's natural to think they are both memories. It adds to the confusion that there are "memory cards" that employ "flash memory", the same tech that powers SSDs, which is nowadays a primary way of doing storage. If you think about it, RAM is short term memory, and storage is long term memory, no?