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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A portable hard drive is likely to have a greater data capacity than a flash drive.
A
True
B
False
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In general, the external hard drive has a larger capacity comparing the flash drive. The main reason lies in the storage media. As we all know, the flash drive only uses flash memory as its storage medium, while the external hard drive has more options.

Detailed explanation-2: -Capacity. Generally, external hard drives have a larger capacity than USB flash drives. The storage size of an external hard drive can range from 150MB to 2TB. It is worth mentioning that the capacity of external hard drives is constantly increasing.

Detailed explanation-3: -In general, the performance of external hard drives is better than that of flash drives. If comparing external HDDs and flash drives, as normal, external hard drives are much faster in bulk data transfer while USB flash drives may be faster when transferring small bits of data.

Detailed explanation-4: -Flash storage can achieve very fast response times (microsecond latency), compared to hard drives with moving components. It uses non-volatile memory, which means that data is not lost when the power is turned off.

Detailed explanation-5: -In terms of overall mass, hard drives are usually larger and heavier than flash drives; however, hard disks sometimes weigh less per unit of storage.

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