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What's the difference between memory capacity and hard disk capacity?

Shulou Source: shulou.com Published: 2022-06-03 00:45:28 10月03日 Update

What is the difference between memory capacity and hard disk capacity? I believe that many inexperienced people are at a loss about this, so this article summarizes the causes and solutions of the problem. Through this article, I hope you can solve this problem.

The difference between memory capacity and hard disk capacity:

1. Different references

1. Hard disk capacity: in megabytes (MB) or gigabytes (GB), the mainstream hard disk capacity is 500G~2TB. The factors that affect the hard disk capacity are single disc capacity and the number of discs.

2. Memory capacity: refers to the capacity of random access memory (RAM), which is the key parameter of memory bars.

Second, different standards of measurement

1. Hard disk capacity: capacity is the most important parameter of hard disk. Hard disk capacity = number of cylinders (indicating how many tracks are on each disk, generally the total number is 1024) × number of heads (indicating the number of disks) × number of sectors (indicating how many sectors are per track, generally the total number is 64) × sectors (storage base unit, usually the size is 512B/4KB).

2. Memory capacity: the amount of memory is equal to the sum of all memory bars inserted on the motherboard memory slot, and the upper limit of memory capacity is generally determined by the motherboard chipset and memory slot.

Third, different characteristics

1. Hard disk capacity: it is measured by byte, KB,KiloByte, MB,MegaByte and GB,Gigabyte.

2. Memory capacity: the larger the memory capacity, the more beneficial to the operation of the system.

After reading the above, have you mastered the difference between memory capacity and hard disk capacity? If you want to learn more skills or want to know more about it, you are welcome to follow the industry information channel, thank you for reading!

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