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An amateur aerospace club is launching a high-altitude weather balloon into the stratosphere to capture high-definition 3D video footage and collect atmospheric readings. The payload has a strict weight limit and is powered entirely by a small onboard battery pack. During the flight and descent by parachute, the payload will experience significant turbulence, near-vacuum pressures, and sub-zero temperatures.

Identify whether the club should install a magnetic secondary storage device or a solid-state secondary storage device in the balloon's data-logging computer.

Justify your choice.

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Secondary storage Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /Computer Science
  3. /Secondary storage

28 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Computer Science Secondary storage. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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