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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This subreddit sure has turned into “explain in painstakingly ridiculous detail that a 5 year old would never understand.”
Your computer is constantly doing things which don’t happen in the RAM, but need the hard drive (including opening things up into the RAM). You are absolutely correct, though, that many computers can and do run for a very long time without any free disk space.
It’s just that random, bloated desktops don’t do so well in that way because they have way too much stuff happening at the same time.
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