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Question 30

A digital preservation trust is upgrading its offline server infrastructure to store petabytes of high-resolution scans of historical manuscripts.

Explain two reasons why magnetic hard disk drives (HDDs) are preferred over solid-state drives (SSDs) for this high-volume archive system.

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Hardware and software Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /Computer Science
  3. /Hardware and software

48 exam-style questions on AQA GCSE Computer Science Hardware and software. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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