Disk and Memory Characteristics
Disks and Memory Performance
| Disk type |
Access time |
Transfer rate |
One access equivalent in bytes transferred |
| Hard disk |
5 - 15 msec |
100 MB/sec |
0.5 - 1.5M |
| Solid state disk |
0.1 msec |
300 - 500 MB/sec |
30K - 50K |
| RAM |
0.000000010 msec(10 nanosec) |
50000 MB/sec |
7.5K |
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