COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

SECONDARY STORAGE DEVICES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Fastest?
A
SSD
B
HDD
C
Magnetic tape
D
CD-ROM
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Seagate Storage Expansion Card for Xbox series X/S. SanDisk 2TB Extreme Portable SSD. Kingston 240GB A400 SATA 32.5” Western Digital 500GB. WD Black 500GB SN750 NVMe Internal Gaming SSD. SanDisk SSD Plus 1TB Internal SSD. Samsung T5 Portable SSD 1TB. SK hynix Gold S31 SATA Gen3 2.5 Inch. More items •14-Mar-2023

Detailed explanation-2: -The best SSD for gaming is the WD Black SN850X. The WD Black SN850X is the fastest SSD you can buy, making full use of its PCIe 4.0 interface with lightning-fast sequential read and write speeds of 7, 300MB/s and 6, 600MB/s, respectively.

Detailed explanation-3: -NVMe or Non-Volatile Memory Express is a super-fast way to access non-volatile memory. It can be around 2-7x faster than SATA SSDs. NVMe is designed to have up to 64, 000 queues each capable of 64, 000 commands at the same time!

Detailed explanation-4: -The SATA 3.0 specification only allows SSDs to reach a maximum data rate of about 560 MB/s. By contrast, the PCIe 3.0 interface allows speeds of 985 MB/s per lane. And PCIe Gen 4 permits 16 gigatransfers per second (GT/s) for each PCIe lane, about 2 gigabytes per second, according to Kingston Technology.

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