How Computers Store Data - Intro to Computer Science

[Legendaryknight]

Awesome video, but it is annoying that I can't answer comments in here (they're too old, perhaps?). You focused too much on the metaphor, so let me clear up some things here:
Hard Drives (note, pendrives work differently) follow the same 0 and 1 logic, but with a magnetic field, a needle is sensible to feel any positive/negative alteration on a little section of the field, and then interprets as it should.

The RAM, uses a capacitor, a capacitor basically stores eletrons that pile up in one side because they can't cross it, but once there are too much piled up, they go through it regardless, but there is always some of them piled up there (like a bucket overflowing), when the power is cut down, all the electric energy piled up in there takes a while to go to the other side, discharging it, that is why it is still considered a 1 no matter how unless it is refreshed (energy goes back). So there you go, they store data because data is charge, and while they still have it, they will still be sending it.

[brad]

I've never seen a bucket of water in my computer :/

[bunnihilator]

you're talking about the state, on and off. but i need to know physically how does it do it? the component where it's storing.
if it burns something chimically so after it opens it reads that burn or something. how it happens physically and chimically. how is it stored. How is the material life affected?

[thetruthsetsyoufree]

this should be retitled, how a computer stores data in the mind of a guy on LSD

[mycomment]

You over simplified the story that deviated it.
Nice to try simplify but not to turn the whole subject and loose the main idea

[Kwikasfuk]

There's no bucket of water in my computer.

[saptarshi]

too simplified. Without talking about transistor and capacitor