An aerospace engineer is designing the flight computer for an autonomous Mars drone. The system is specified to have 8 GiB of primary memory (RAM) and 512 GiB of secondary storage (SSD).
Explain two distinct reasons why the flight computer requires a significantly larger capacity of secondary storage than primary memory.
Practise AQA GCSE Computer Science Systems architecture with exam-style questions for GCSE Computer Science. 42 questions, matched to the AQA GCSE Computer Science (8525) specification and written in Paper 1 and Paper 2 style. Every question includes a full worked solution and mark scheme, so you can see where marks are awarded rather than just whether you got the answer right.