Memory vs. Storage — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Memory and Storage
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Memory
Memory is the faculty of the brain by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action.
Storage
The action or method of storing something for future use
The room lacked storage space
The chair can be folded flat for easy storage
Memory
The mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experience.
Storage
The act of storing goods or the state of being stored.
Memory
The act or an instance of remembering; recollection
Spent the afternoon lost in memory.
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Storage
A space for storing goods.
Memory
All that a person can remember
It hasn't happened in my memory.
Storage
The price charged for keeping goods stored.
Memory
Something that is remembered
Pleasant childhood memories.
Storage
The charging or regenerating of a storage battery.
Memory
The fact of being remembered; remembrance
Dedicated to their parents' memory.
Storage
(Computers) The part of a computer that stores information for subsequent use or retrieval.
Memory
The period of time covered by the remembrance or recollection of a person or group of persons
Within the memory of humankind.
Storage
(uncountable) The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.
There's a lot of storage in the loft.
Memory
A circuit or device that stores digital data.
Storage
An object or place in which something is stored.
Memory
Capacity for storing information
Two gigabytes of memory.
Storage
Any computer device, including such as a disk, on which data is stored for a longer term than main memory.
I′d recommend backing up these files to storage before reinstalling the operating system.
Memory
(Statistics) The set of past events affecting a given event in a stochastic process.
Storage
(uncountable) The price charged for storing goods.
Memory
The capacity of a material, such as plastic or metal, to return to a previous shape after deformation.
Storage
To put into storage; to store.
Memory
(Immunology) The ability of the immune system to respond faster and more powerfully to subsequent exposure to an antigen.
Storage
The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.
Memory
(uncountable) The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later at will.
Memory is a facility common to all animals.
Storage
Space for the safe keeping of goods.
Memory
A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.
I have no memory of that event.
My wedding is one of my happiest memories.
Storage
The price changed for keeping goods in a store.
Memory
(computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).
This data passes from the CPU to the memory.
Storage
The act of storing something
Memory
The time within which past events can be or are remembered.
In recent memory
In living memory
Storage
A depository for goods;
Storehouses were built close to the docks
Memory
Which returns to its original shape when heated
Memory metal
Memory plastic
Storage
The commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials
Memory
(obsolete) A memorial.
Storage
(computer science) the process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic tape or disk
Memory
A term of venery for a social group of elephants, normally called a herd.
Storage
An electronic memory device;
A memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached
Memory
The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.
Memory is the purveyor of reason.
Storage
Depositing in a warehouse
Memory
The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.
Memory
The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.
Memory
The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.
And what, before thy memory, was doneFrom the begining.
Memory
Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory.
The memory of the just is blessed.
That ever-living man of memory, Henry the Fifth.
The Nonconformists . . . have, as a body, always venerated her [Elizabeth's] memory.
Memory
A memorial.
These weeds are memories of those worser hours.
Memory
Something that is remembered;
Search as he would, the memory was lost
Memory
The cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered;
He can do it from memory
He enjoyed remembering his father
Memory
The power of retaining and recalling past experience;
He had a good memory when he was younger
Memory
An electronic memory device;
A memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached
Memory
The area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes;
He taught a graduate course on learning and memory
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