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Is 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) technolog

Is 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 ago
  Tell 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