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ELI5: Can somebody explain RAM for me?
gpt
Computer processors are really, really fast. Hard drives are really, really slow in comparison. If computers handled and processed data by writing and reading directly from the hard drive, computers would be extremely slow too, because the hard drive couldn't keep up with the processor's speed.

RAM is there to address this problem. It's a place where data is temporarly stored that is really really fast to read and write from.