Branch Education — Why Don’t Computers Just Use One Type of Memory? 🖥️💿🛠️

Branch Education — Why Don’t Computers Just Use One Type of Memory? 🖥️💿🛠️

Your computer has over a dozen different memory and storage locations—from CPU registers to DRAM, SSDs and hard drives—and it needs every single one.  In this video, you’ll see exactly why. We're breaking down the entire explanation of the memory hierarchy into three parts. First, a visual analogy using books and libraries that finally makes the wild tradeoffs in speed, capacity, and cost click. Second, a nanoscopic tour inside registers, SRAM c…