im learning the differences between hard drive and memory, and i was wondering about my applications, and specificly the itunes application. does having a lot of music, shows, whatever on there use up space on my hard drive, or my memory?
thanks
2007-03-17 19:31:32 · 5 answers · asked by jezabella 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Ahem, allow me to take a shot at that.
A harddrive stores information on your computer. When you ask your computer to do something, say, play a song in iTunes (or whatever), your computer first finds the music file stored on your harddrive. It then transfers the music from your harddrive to your RAM (a temporary storage device which the computer can speak to very quickly (no moving parts), and plays your song from there.
Each time you want to play a new song, you ask the computer to find the song on your harddrive, it's transferred to the quicker RAM memory, and then plays.
When you start adding song after song to you library, you are taking up storage space on your harddrive -- it has nothing to do with RAM. RAM is only used to PLAY back those songs stored on the harddrive.
Hope that helps, best of luck.
2007-03-17 19:39:42 · answer #1 · answered by maxheadshot 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
iTunes will occupy hard drive space as long as it installed (somewhere in the range of 50MB i'm guessing).
All music and content will also occupy hard drive space, depending on how much content you have. This can range from a few megabytes up to many gigabytes.
iTunes will not occupy any memory (RAM) until the application is run.
Whilst iTunes is running but idle it usually consumes around 30-50MB of system memory. As soon as you start playing music or video it will start to consume more memory, up to 100MB or so.
The short answer is that iTunes uses both hard drive space and memory.
2007-03-17 19:45:09 · answer #2 · answered by James R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it does especially sound as it is multi-dimensional as opposed to pictures which are only 2 dimensional. In general, all programs use memory and hard drive. you have a sound card which takes a lot of work away from your CPU, the same for your graphics card. Instead of your CPU having to construct a tetrahedron it tells your graphics card to do it and gets on with its own job. The same for sound and modems etc. Even your keyboard has its own micro-processor in it.
2007-03-17 19:42:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you're still confused? your friends are stupid. itunes just links the songs on your library to the directory where your music file is stored in.
2007-03-17 19:34:56 · answer #4 · answered by ryan_macalinao5472 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
the short answer is, it will use up a ton of both.
2007-03-17 21:33:30 · answer #5 · answered by joelius24 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋