If we use the flash drives instead of the harddisks, then the secondary storage can go above primary memory in the hierarchy.

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• To overcome the slow operating speeds of the secondary memory we make use of faster flash drives.
• The reason for the fast operating speeds of the flash drives is
• In the memory hierarchy, as the speed of operation increases the memory size also increases.
• The only difference between the EEPROM and flash memory is that the latter doesn’t allow bulk data to be written.
• The flash memory modules designed to replace the functioning of a hard disk is               
• The larger memory placed between the primary cache and the memory is called               
• Which registers can interact with the secondary storage?
• The next level of memory hierarchy after the L2 cache is                 
• The last on the hierarchy scale of memory devices is               
• The main purpose of having memory hierarchy is to