Which of the following BEST explains why modern smartphones and tablets do not use traditional spinning platter hard disk drives (HDDs)?
HDDs contain moving parts that are susceptible to damage from movement and they consume more power than is suitable for small, battery-operated devices.
Mobile device processors lack the necessary controllers to manage the high-speed data transfer of an HDD.
International standards prohibit the use of magnetic storage media in devices that have cellular transceivers.
The file systems used by HDDs, such as NTFS or HFS+, are incompatible with mobile operating systems like Android and iOS.
Smartphones and tablets use solid-state storage (e.g., flash memory) instead of mechanical Hard Disk Drives (HDDs). The moving parts, specifically the spinning platters and read/write heads, in an HDD are vulnerable to damage from shock and movement, which are common with portable devices. Additionally, HDDs consume more power than flash storage, which would negatively impact the battery life of a small, mobile device. The other options are incorrect. Mobile operating systems can be designed to work with various file systems, modern mobile processors are powerful enough to handle HDD data rates, and there are no international standards that prohibit magnetic storage in phones.
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