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Monday, May 16, 2011

What do you mean by ‘Volatility’? Explain RAM and ROM with the concept and term. [HSEB 2059]

Volatility generally means storage that is temporary. Often that is expressed by the data disappearing when the computer is turned off.

RAM

ROM

It stands for Random

Access Memory.

It stands for Read Only

Memory.

It is also called read/write

or volatile memory.

It is also called dead store/

Field store or non-volatile memory.

It's contents lost if power is

off.

It retains contents if power is off.

RAM is divided into-

Static RAM and

Dynamic RAM

ROM is divided into-

PROM

EPROM

EEPROM

Flash Memory

Costly or expensive

Cheap in price.

Both RAM and ROM comes under primary memory.

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