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Virtual RAM, now ubiquitous in smartphones, may help keep more apps running in the background, but is not the same as having extra RAM in the handset. Find out how does it work and what is a virtual RAM.
RAM, or random access memory, is a high-speed storage that stores data on a temporary basis, unlike the internal storage where data is stored permanently till its deleted or overwritten manually. RAM is called volatile memory because of its temporary nature, but is much faster than other types of memory such as hard drives.
Virtual RAM, or swap space, is part of a device's storage acting as backup memory when the physical RAM is full. It allows devices to run smoothly under heavy use. For instance, a device with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage might allocate 2GB as virtual RAM, effectively making it 6GB RAM but reducing storage to 62GB.
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