An engineer is designing a flight control computer for an autonomous drone. They are evaluating how the system will interact with both the Random Access Memory (RAM) and the secondary storage unit (such as onboard flash memory).
Apart from differences in storage capacity and volatility, describe two other key operational differences between RAM and secondary storage that the engineer must consider.
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