COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
SECONDARY STORAGE DEVICES
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Question
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Which of the following typs of storage would likely access its data the fastest? (4/6)
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Optical drive
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Magnetic drive
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Solid state drive
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They are all the same!
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -While access times of fast hard disks are typically from 5 to 10 milliseconds, solid state drive (SSD) access times are in the 25 to 100 microsecond range. SSDs are as much as 100 times faster because there is no mechanical seek time or latency associated with flash memory storage.
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