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Is the hard drive ROM?

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Michel LATOUFFE Posted messages 5131 Registration date   Status Contributeur Last intervention   -
Is the hard drive ROM?
I have a metaphysical question ;-) Can we say that an computer's hard drive is read-only memory (ROM)? (in the sense that read-only memory is a storage area for data that is not erased when the computer is turned off).
Thank you for your answer (this might settle a quarrel among computer scientists :D

Madjic

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lermite222 Posted messages 9042 Status Contributeur 1 199
 
Hello,
much to your metaphysics' dismay, the hard drive IS NOT ROM, ROM stands for Read Only Memory, which can only be read, whereas the hard drive can read and modify data.
Does that answer your question?
See you later,
Louis
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Madjic
 
Non Read Access Memory => it's RAM
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blux Posted messages 2016 Registration date   Status Modérateur Last intervention   3 452 > Madjic
 
And in this case, it's Random Access Memory: RAM...

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A+ Blux 
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