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Discussion on: How many level of memory do we need for fast processing?

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mayank joshi

I am going to list set of memories in decreasing order of cost and speed.

Registers > Cache > Ram/Main Memory > SSD > HDD > Any External Devices (ex- flash drive etc).

Registers are the fastest but very costly.
HDD is very slow but cheap.