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Primary or Secondary Storage.
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STORAGE Electronic data is a sequence of bits. This data can either reside in Primary or Secondary Storage The Difference Between Primary and Secondary Storage * Primary storage is volatile: when the power is off, all contents of RAM are lost. That is why data from RAM is saved as files on secondary storage which is non-volatile and almost permanent (It wears out eventually or becomes out of dated technology) * Size. Secondary storage is virtually infinite: when you run out of space on one disk, you use another. On the contrary there is a limited amount of RAM that can be accessed by the CPU. Some programs will not run on a particular computer system because there is not enough RAM available. * Access time. It takes few nanoseconds for the CPU to access RAM but it takes several milliseconds to access secondary storage. The reasons for RAM being faster are: 1....
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