One term many people confuse is memory or RAM, and hard drive storage space. RAM stands for Random Access Memory (don’t worry, you don’t need to remember that!).
It is a temporary working space the computer uses to get work done, which gets emptied when the computer is turned off.
Think of it like a work bench or table. You have a project you’re working on and you do your project on the bench and when you’re done, you clear it off.
The hard drive is the main place your computer uses to store information. It looks like a rectangular metal box which contains a non-removable disk (as opposed to something like a CD Drive where you can take the disk out).
It is the disk inside the drive which stores everything on your computer — every picture, every music file, every email, and every Word document. Not only that, but Windows or Mac OS X, the operating system that makes the computer run.
To continue our analogy, think of it as…
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