Tech Support : RAM vs. Storage Diagnosis Challenge" by Amotechx Official https://padlet.com/amosmusili86/qoz34i5q8727arta YOUR MISSION: Use your RAM vs. Storage knowledge to diagnose real computer problems! en-us 2025-10-06 13:48:26 UTC 2025-10-08 11:22:59 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4ca.png SCENARIO 1 SARAH "My computer takes 10 minutes to start up. When I try to open any program - Word, Chrome, even simple Notepad - I see a spinning wheel for ages. Once programs finally open, they work okay. My computer is 6 years old." amosmusili86 https://padlet.com/amosmusili86/qoz34i5q8727arta/wish/3623320278 Current Specs: 8GB RAM, 500GB HDD (hard disk drive), Intel Core i5

]]> 2025-10-08 09:25:51 UTC https://padlet.com/amosmusili86/qoz34i5q8727arta/wish/3623320278 SCENARIO 2 STEPHEN "When I'm teaching on Zoom and have my PowerPoint presentation open, plus Chrome with 15 tabs for research, plus Spotify playing music, plus Word for notes - everything freezes. I get 'Not Responding' errors constantly. Sometimes Zoom crashes entirely. But if I only use Zoom by itself, it works perfectly fine." amosmusili86 https://padlet.com/amosmusili86/qoz34i5q8727arta/wish/3623328717 Current Specs: 4GB RAM, 256GB SSD, Intel Core i5 (3 years old)

]]> 2025-10-08 09:32:01 UTC https://padlet.com/amosmusili86/qoz34i5q8727arta/wish/3623328717 SCENARIO 3 AMOS My laptop shows I have 200GB of free storage space out of 512GB total. But it still feels sluggish when I'm in a video call while taking notes in OneNote and checking email in Outlook. Task Manager shows 'Memory: 92% used.' Everything works fine when I close some programs." amosmusili86 https://padlet.com/amosmusili86/qoz34i5q8727arta/wish/3623332952 Current Specs: 4GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Windows 1

]]> 2025-10-08 09:34:48 UTC https://padlet.com/amosmusili86/qoz34i5q8727arta/wish/3623332952 Storage (specifically slow/old HDD amosmusili86 https://padlet.com/amosmusili86/qoz34i5q8727arta/wish/3623335174 2025-10-08 09:36:38 UTC https://padlet.com/amosmusili86/qoz34i5q8727arta/wish/3623335174 Slow STARTUP (loading operating system from storage) amosmusili86 https://padlet.com/amosmusili86/qoz34i5q8727arta/wish/3623338790 Slow to OPEN programs (fetching them from storage)

Once programs are open, they work fine (RAM is adequate)

6-year-old HDD (mechanical hard drives slow down with age

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