Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from I Heart Radio.

Hey there and welcome to Tech Stuff. I'm your host Jonathan Strickland. I'm an

executive producer with I Heart Radio and I love all things Tech and I recently

had a couple of listeners write to me and ask if I could do an

episode about Solid State Drives, which is a method of data storage.

So today we're going to learn about different ways to store information with computer

systems and what makes each one special. And there are a lot of different ways that computer

scientists have created to store information, either

temporarily or, you know, permanently or semi-permanently using computer systems.

To go through all of them and to explain how all of them work

would actually take a few episodes. A lot of them work in similar ways but with different

manifestations. And also a lot of those methods are actually totally obsolete today.

So we're not going to go over everything.

Instead we're going to have a quick refresher on ROM, RAM, cache memory, and then storage systems.

Rom and RAM are both types of computer memory.

The purpose of computer memory is to have a way to reference instructions quickly to run processes.

And by that, I mean for the CPU to be able to get the information it needs.

Typically we refer to memory as being a type of data storage that a CPU can access directly as opposed to permanent storage which must be retrieved before the CPU can access it.

A processor needs two major things to carry out tasks.

It needs a list of instructions, also known as what to do,

and then data.

That's the stuff you're performing operations up. what to do and then data.

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