Computer components

RAM

RAM is an acronym for Random Access Memory which is a type of memory that can be accessed randomly. They look something like this 
There are two different types of RAM on called DRAM which stands for Dynamic Random Access Memory and SRAM or Static Random Access Memory the difference between the two being that DRAM is slower than SRAM as DRAM is always needing to be refreshed whereas SRAM doesn't allowing it to be faster