Critical Thinking Questions Case 8-1
You have been chosen to be a teaching assistant at your school. A student comes to you with questions about storage devices.
The student asks you to explain speed of storage devices and memory. You tell her that all of the following are true, EXCEPT:
A) Some manufacturers state a storage device's transfer rate because it affects access time.
B) Optical discs are good options to store movies and music.
C) The access time of memory is slow compared with that of storage devices.
D) Transfer rates for storage are stated in KBps, MBps, and GBps.

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Critical Thinking Questions Case 8-1
You have been chosen to be a teaching assistant at your school. A student comes to you with questions about storage devices. 
The student asks you to explain speed of storage devices and memory. You tell her that all of the following are true, EXCEPT:
A) Some manufacturers state a storage device's transfer rate because it affects access time.
B) Optical discs are good options to store movies and music.
C) The access time of memory is slow compared with that of storage devices.
D) Transfer rates for storage are stated in KBps, MBps, and GBps.

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Access time of memory is typically much faster than that of storage devices, not slower.