Question

    Disk access time is measured in

    ____________.
    A Minute Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Milliseconds Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Hours Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Seconds Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E Nanoseconds Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Disk access times are measured in milliseconds, often abbreviated as ms.The time a program or device takes to locate a single piece of information and make it available to the computer for processing is known as Access Time. DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chips for personal computers have access times of 50 to 150 nanoseconds (billionths of a second). Static RAM (SRAM) has access times as low as 10 nanoseconds.

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