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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If you are taking about disk storage, older platter hard drives that have to actually move a plate and read head to access data can degrade in performance over time and with increased data due to something called fragmentation.
The files on your computer aren’t monolithic entities. They can be broken down into chunks and retrieved and put together again later. When you start running out of disk space, the size of each empty space may be smaller than the total file size of your file, and it will get split up and stores in pieces, which are slower to retrieve.
Imagine you had to store 10 balls. If you could put them all in one bucket in a single room, then it’s pretty quick for you to grab them when you need them. If you don’t have anywhere that can fit 10 balls, you have to put 2 in your kitchen, 1 in the bathroom, 2 in the bedroom, etc. Then, when you need to get them all, you spend a lot of time running around your house collecting all the balls before you can use them
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