Huawei Certified ICT Associate – Storage (HCIA-Storage) — Question 18

Statement 1: MLC drives are optimal when used for high intensity writes to that disk.
Statement 2: The latency of SSD drives is about 0.1 s.

Answer options

• A. Statement 1 is false; Statement 2 is true
• B. Statement 1 and 2 are true
• C. Statement 1 is true; Statement 2 is false
• D. Statement 1 and 2 are false

Correct answer: A

Explanation

Statement 1 is false because MLC drives are not optimal for high intensity writes due to their endurance limitations. Statement 2 is true, as the typical latency for SSD drives is indeed around 0.1 seconds, which is significantly lower than that of traditional hard drives.