COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

SECONDARY STORAGE DEVICES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What type of storage is an SSD?
A
Magnetic
B
Optical
C
Solid State / Flash
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A solid-state drive (SSD) is a semiconductor-based storage device, which typically uses NAND flash memory to save persistent data. Each NAND flash memory chip consists of an array of blocks, also known as a grid, and within each block, there is an array of memory cells, known as pages or sectors.

Detailed explanation-2: -A solid-state drive (SSD) is a new generation of storage device used in computers. SSDs store data using flash-based memory, which is much faster than the traditional hard disks they’ve come to replace.

Detailed explanation-3: -The main difference is that flash memory is used in SSDs, but you’ll never find an SSD in a flash storage device. This comes down to basic economies of scale, where both in storage and physical space, SSDs are always larger in size than flash storage devices.

Detailed explanation-4: -An all-flash array (AFA), also known as a solid-state storage disk system or a solid-state array, is an external storage array that uses only flash media for persistent storage. Flash memory is used in place of the spinning hard disk drives (HDDs) that have long been associated with networked storage systems.

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