Speed of various computer components

A CPU cycle can be a quarter of a nanosecond.
A read from RAM is about 60 nanoseconds.
A read from a relatively fast modern SSD is 20 microseconds (20,000 nanoseconds).
A read from a slow disk is 10 milliseconds (10,000,000 nanoseconds).

Borrowed and summarized from Leah Hanson



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