Question

Rank the following storage systems from slowest to fastest:

a. Hard-disk drives
b. Registers
c. Optical disk
d. Main memory
e. Nonvolatile memory
f. Magnetic tapes
g. Cache

Answer 1

Slower = Larger capacity (and vice versa)

Ranked from Slowest to Fastest:

1. magnetic tapes

2. optical disk

3. hard-disk drives

4. nonvolatile memory

5. main memory

6. cache

7. registers