From the course: CompTIA A+ Core 1 (220-1101) Cert Prep

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 23,200 courses taught by industry experts.

RAM features

RAM features

From the course: CompTIA A+ Core 1 (220-1101) Cert Prep

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

RAM features

“

- RAM has a lot of features that I've kind of dumped all into one little episode that I'm going to call cleverly, "RAM Features". So, the first thing I want to talk about is a unique feature of RAM known as parity vs. ECC. So, what I want you to do is take a look at these three sticks right here in front of me. Count the actual chips. You see, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, Eh, let's flip it over. This way you can see it a little better. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. You see that? What you're looking at is, remember when we talked about RAM, we always say bytes. I have 16 gigabytes. I have one gigabyte. I always have 32 gigabytes. We never say gigabits or anything like that because when we measure RAM, it's always in bytes and there are eight bits to a byte. Each one of those chips handles a bit, and that's why you pretty much always see eight little chips on a stick of RAM. There's a few exceptions, but they're rare. So, let's look down here one more time though. On this one we have…

Contents