| DRAM DRAM
is the Hershey's chocolate of readable/writable memory: it's not the best,
but it's cheap, does the job, and is available almost everywhere you look.
DRAM data resides in a cell made of a capacitor and a transistor. The
capacitor tends to lose data unless it's recharged every couple of
milliseconds, and this recharging tends to slow down the performance of
DRAM compared to speedier RAM types. |