2007-02-27 07:30:12 · 4 answers · asked by David 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Ram
Virtual Memory is actually just a small portion of your harddrive. IDE/ATA aren't getting any faster. SATA/PATA will eventually increase in speed, but for now, your ram as far as memory is concerned will be faster.
There are other things such as bus speeds, memory timing etc that come in to play, but that is just going to mean some ram on some chipsets will be faster than other ram.
2007-02-27 07:36:54 · answer #1 · answered by Pitchy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey! Why would anyone want to compare those three types of memory. It is irrelevant.
RAM chips are plugged directly into a socket on the motherboard or mainboard. With their fingers, "gold" or "silver", so to speak. They are like circuitry which functions as readily available workspace for commandprocessing.
It is like rolling dough on a tabletop before it goes into a bakingform and into the oven. Pardon the comparison: the Harddisc would be the oven here, but a harddisc is not really like an oven. It is more like a shelf, or a fridge, for storage. Mounted in brackets with datacables to your mainboard.Of course, when you have pastries in the fridge and you want some you may open the door and get them. Just like that. The Harddisc has needle, sort of like a turntable, which "reads" the record.
And Virtual Memory is a part of your pcs' Random Access Memory, which has been configured to do virtual computations, as opposed to real dataprocessing in RAM.
2007-02-27 08:23:27 · answer #2 · answered by ♫ayayay♫ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
RAM.
A hard disk works similar to a record. In order for the computer to find the data, it has to move the "needle" to where the data is. You cannot really consider the hard drive as memory, it is used for storage not fast access to data.
RAM memory can access the data anywhere on the memory stick, it also does not have to wait for the spinning disk of the hard drive to transfer the data.
Virtual memory is just a reserved portion of the hard drive that is used to hold RAM overflow data. As you can guess, since it is on the hard drive, it is much slower than RAM.
2007-02-27 07:35:32 · answer #3 · answered by Bjorn 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
hard disk can be memory, but your best option is ram, because there is nothing spinning trying to look for what it just stored temp. while its doing all of your other tasks
2007-02-27 07:36:41 · answer #4 · answered by Jack H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋