Module 7:digital storage: preserving your content

memory

consists of electronic components that store instructions waiting to be executed by the processor, data needed by those instructions, and the results of processing the data into information

Temporary storage is

volatile

storage medium is

Nonvolatile

GB = how many bytes

1 billion

Transfer rate

The speed with which data, instructions and information transfer to and from a device

most common storage medium

internal hard drive

hard drives can store ?

Data either magnetically or using solid-state storage

magnetic hard disk drives ___ (name) have ___storage capacity and are less ____ than their solid-state equivalents

HDDS; greater; expensive

__is the most common form of volatile memory

RAM

examples of nonvolatile memory

ROM, flash memory, and CMOS