Advantages of Volatile Memory
- Increased speed : The main advantage that volatile memory is that it performs all its operations fastly. It performs all the read and write operation very fastly on system.
- Consumes less electric power: Volatile memory consumes very less electric power as compared to Non-volatile Memory devices such as hard disk and other type of drives.
- Stores the data: The computer devices with Volatile memory stores their data for processing on Central Processing Unit(CPU).
- Improves Performance: If the system has large RAM, it performs it’s operations more fastly. Due to which it increases the overall performance.
What is Volatile Memory?
The term memory refers to an electronic place to hold the instructions and data. This stored information is then retrieved for the immediate use. Without the memory computer devices cannot function fastly and efficiently. Memory is used by the operating system, other hardware and software. The memory can be a volatile memory or a non-volatile memory. The below article covers details regarding volatile memory.