Memory Technologies

Question 1

Virtual RAM

Answer 1

Swap or Phyical Memory kept on the hard drive for temporary overflow storage

Question 2

Multi-Channel Memory

Answer 2

[Color-coded slots]

Dual, Triple or Quad channel

Matching sticks that balance load
Increase system throughput

Question 3

ECC

Answer 3

Error Correcting Code

aka Parity Memory

Self-checking memory that corrects on the fly using parity check (bit arithmetic)

Question 4

DRAM

Answer 4

Dynamic Random Access Memory

Constant updating, power consumption to stay active

Question 5

SDRAM

Answer 5

Synchronous Dynamic RAM

Keeps clock to time in/out cyclically

Question 6

DDR

Answer 6

Double Data Rate SDRAM

Unique slot Pin/key placements

2x the Data per clock cycle

DDR2 (8GB/s), DDR3 (16GB/s), DDR4(64 GB/s), DDR5 (fastest)