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Post by Lone Wanderer on May 7, 2019 2:43:09 GMT
PC hard drives inch closer to joining floppy disks in the digital graveyardAs SSD prices go down, so does the rate of HDD shipments. Mechanical hard drives have proven a resilient storage medium over the years, just as floppy disks once were, before USB flash drives eventually took the baton. Will HDDs see the same fate? Not today and not tomorrow, but it's bound to happen one day. It's certainly trending in that direction, with one of the biggest suppliers of HDD motors anticipating a massive decline PC HDD shipments this year. It's not difficult to understand why. Just as USB flash drives effectively supplanted floppy disks (for the most part), PC storage schemes have been transitioning to much faster solid state drives. SSDs have reached the point of being viable for consumers and OEM system builders alike—these days we routinely see desktop and laptop deals with SSDs inside instead of HDDs. Of course, if looking only at the amount of storage, HDDs still offer a better bang-per-buck, or bang-per-gigabyte. As such, I don't anticipate them joining floppy disks in the near future, especially since hundreds of millions of HDDs are still being shipped annually when factoring in data centers and non-PC devices. But the gap is definitely closing, especially on home PCs. www.pcgamer.com/pc-hard-drives-inch-closer-to-joining-floppy-disks-in-the-digital-graveyard/
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Post by PISTON1246 on May 7, 2019 19:12:46 GMT
There are some HDDs to choose from that I still want to try out.
I have not tried out an SSD before so I have not experience what the difference in speed is yet.
5400RPM HDD IS SUPPOSED TO BE SLOWER THEN A 7200RPM HDD AND THAT 5400RPM HDD I HAD FOR MY LAPTOP LOADED UP VIDEOS IN ABOUT A SECOND. I LIKED HAVING VIDEOS ON MY HDD COMPARED TO STREAMING OVER THE INTERNET. I CAN HAVE STUFF TO USE WHILE OFFLINE AND THAT WAS A GOOD BENEFIT.
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Post by Elizabeth on May 9, 2019 16:58:42 GMT
I just use flashdrives mostly. But I don't like this news.
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