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220-1101 · Question #692

A customer wants to archive a large number of photos and does not plan to retrieve them often. The customer wants a storage option that is the least expensive per gigabyte. Which of the following shou

The correct answer is D. 5,400rpm HOD. Traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), especially slower 5,400rpm models, offer by far the lowest cost per gigabyte of any listed option. They are ideal for archival/bulk storage where speed is not a priority. NVMe SSDs (A) are fast but expensive per GB. 15,000rpm SAS drives (C) ar

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Question

A customer wants to archive a large number of photos and does not plan to retrieve them often. The customer wants a storage option that is the least expensive per gigabyte. Which of the following should the technician suggest?

Options

  • ANVMe SSD
  • BSCSI RAID
  • C15,000rpm SAS
  • D5,400rpm HOD

How the community answered

(19 responses)
  • B
    5% (1)
  • D
    95% (18)

Explanation

Traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), especially slower 5,400rpm models, offer by far the lowest cost per gigabyte of any listed option. They are ideal for archival/bulk storage where speed is not a priority. NVMe SSDs (A) are fast but expensive per GB. 15,000rpm SAS drives (C) are high-performance enterprise drives with a high cost per GB. SCSI RAID (B) is an enterprise-grade, expensive solution. For rarely accessed, cost-sensitive archiving, the 5,400rpm HDD is the correct recommendation.

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#Storage devices#HDD#Archiving#Cost per gigabyte

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