[Hikori]

Originally Posted by Demonskid

._. RAM has nothing to do with hard or flash disks..

RAM is what the OS and programs us to run..

Flash and Hard disk is basically what you put the crap you download onto.. Pictures, music.. in my case anime.. *pets my two 250GB hard drives*

actually~


Ram is primary memory- harddisks or flash disks is secondary memory~

ram is what you need to run programs yes-

but in order for things to work faster- you need to get the info from secondary memory to primary memory so it can run~ the faster you do this the faster your computer gets.

flash memory is more efficient at it's base because it's really similar to random access memory- except instead of going away when the computer is powered of- it stays in it's chip~

hard disk sometimes gets cluttered because of the way it writes to a disk- it has to jump from spot to spot of the disk in order to read the memory it needs to read so it can send it to the primary memory Defragging helps with organizing the fragments ((aka unfragmenting)) in the harddisk. thats how defragging helps make a computer faster. Another way to make it faster (while using hard disks) is to use better file systems. (all os's use a different file system that it works better on- but windows is finicky about only wanting to use the file systems made by microsoft)