An employee is upgrading an aging workstation that is frequently used for video editing. The existing internal drive is almost full and causes long load and save times. Which storage upgrade will provide the most noticeable improvement in read/write performance while also giving the employee more capacity?
Add an external Thunderbolt hard drive enclosure
Install a larger-capacity solid state drive (SSD)
Replace the existing drive with a 10,000 RPM hard disk drive (HDD)
Use a high-capacity USB 3.0 flash drive for project files
A solid state drive (SSD) delivers much faster read and write performance than a spinning-disk hard drive because it uses NAND flash memory with no mechanical seek or rotational latency. Replacing the old drive with a higher-capacity SSD therefore both speeds up file operations and increases available space. High-RPM HDDs, USB flash drives, and external Thunderbolt drives do not offer the same combination of internal convenience and performance.
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