Primary storage Flashcards
What is the purpose of primary storage?
Store instructions for currently running programs.
Store data for images and sounds that are being used by the computer at that moment.
Acting as a temporary store for data while playing a game.
Holding important information about the computer, the time and date, OS.
What is the purpose of the RAM?
- Temporarily stores the apps that are running.
- Temporarily stores the data needed for the apps.
- RAM is volatile.
- When you start up your computer the start-up
instructions put the OS into the RAM.
What is the purpose of ROM in a computer?
- ROM is non-volatile.
- ROM stores the start-up instructions for your computer system, for example in the BIOS.
What is virtual memory?
When the RAM is full and cannot store anymore data, the data is stored in the hard drive. This causes a problem as the hard drive is physically further away from the CPU than the RAM is which results in slower speed, also the hard drive has slower read write speeds.
