COMPUTER HARDWARE COMPONENTS FUNCTIONS
EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL STORAGE DEVICES
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Primary
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Secondary
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Offline
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Primary storage. Primary storage (also known as main memory, internal memory, or prime memory), often referred to simply as memory, is the only one directly accessible to the CPU.
Detailed explanation-2: -Primary memory is directly accessible by Processor/CPU. Secondary memory is not directly accessible by the CPU. Nature of Parts of Primary memory varies, RAM-volatile in nature.
Detailed explanation-3: -Primary storage (also known as main memory ) is the component of the computer that holds data, programs and instructions that are currently in use. Primary storage is located on the motherboard . As a result, data can be read from and written to primary storage extremely quickly.
Detailed explanation-4: -Data stored in primary memory can be directly accessed by the CPU, which cannot be accessed in secondary memory.
Detailed explanation-5: -This is because using a HDD as the primary memory would cause a computer to perform much slower (a HDD or SSD is not directly accessible to the CPU, and isn’t as fast as RAM).