yes
No, most new hard drives use Serial ATA or SATA connectors.
Milliseconds(ms)
milliseconds
The ATA standard that uses a serial cable is SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment). SATA is used for hard drives, optical drives and other such storage devices.
External serial ATA (eSATA) hard drives is up to six times faster than USB or FireWire.
SATA, or serial advanced technology attachment, connects the motherboard to hard drives and optical drives. This cable is inserted into the SATA slot on the motherboard.
both of them are random access memories
Over 9000... untis of measurment. milliseconds.
Access time
NAS
Permanant information is stored in hard drives, usb drives, cds, dvds and the temporary information is stored in RAM (Random Access Memory).
Serial ATA (SATA) is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives, optical drives, and solid-state drives.