eli5: How does storage impact computer performance?

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I was at work and some computers that were nearly maxed on storage were basically unusable. This doesn’t make sense because my understanding was RAM was the storage the computer uses to run tasks and the storage was for things downloaded

My guess would be that the storage is used for ‘long term’ RAM, something that will be needed for a while anyways but idk. Outside of that I can’t really think of anything else

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When your hard drives are stuffed to the brim and it’s degrading performance, it’s not the storage itself, but what’s stored on it.

If you have a shit ton of programs installed on the storage that are all running at the same time, they will degrade overall performance. If you have a bunch of photos stored on your hard drive, it won’t affect your computer’s performance at all!

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