FC0-U71 Tech Concepts and Terminology Practice Question
Which of the following storage types uses spinning platters to read and write data?
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HDD
HDDs (Hard Disk Drives) use spinning magnetic platters, while SSDs use flash memory.
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SSD
Why it's wrong here
SSDs use flash memory, not spinning platters.
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RAM
Why it's wrong here
RAM is volatile memory, not storage.
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HDD
Why this is correct
HDDs use spinning platters.
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Cache
Why it's wrong here
Cache is a type of fast memory.
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