which is better an SSD or a hard drive honestly it's sort of like asking which
is better a motorcycle or a semi-truck all right so you might be sitting there
going that's a weird thing to say lionist why would you say something like
that and the answer is because they're really not that comparable they're just
different let's start with performance when it comes to Raw speed ssds are
faster I see many folks comparing the sequential speed of an SSD to the
sequential speed of a hard drive and saying oh well they're kind of similar
but the reality of it is unless you copy large files back and forth all day this
specification is pretty much meaningless I'm serious it has nothing to do with
the way that they will that you will perceive the performance in the real
world ssds are all about little data
transactions that happen all the time all over the place when you're running
something like an operating system on them you know an instant message comes
through a program launches and needs to access a ton of little files all over
the place these are the times when not having to physically move move ahead
across a disc allows an SSD to utterly
destroy a hard drive in terms of performance in system responsiveness any
modern SSD will be easily several times faster than any hard drive and sometimes
much more than that okay that's great but what if you have lots of data to
store and that's your main concern it's not like playing back video or music
files or looking at your archive of pictures requires blazing fast
performance so this is where hard drives still Excel at the time of filming this
$160 buys you either a 256 GB SSD or a 4
terb yes a 16 times larger hard drive
for that kind of difference in price per gig you could literally build two hard
drive based storage boxes and have one of them set up as an off-site backup
with the money that you saved by not using an SSD based backup solution so
yes folks for mass storage of data we are a long way away from hard drives
being replaced by ssds okay but what about reliability now this one's a
little bit complicated hard drives are pretty reliable these days but as
devices with moving Parts they will die eventually the good news is they usually
give warning signs like uh if your hard drive is making clicking noises right
now for example first check to make sure it hasn't turned into a dolphin then
replace it if it is still a hard drive um but the bad news is that any kind of
use will wear them out for ssds reading
from them a won't really wear them out very much especially if you keep them
running cool but if you write to them heavily you can kill a consumer grade
model relatively quickly so I guess I'd
put it this way in an environment where shock is an everyday occurrence such as
in a notebook or tablet I would choose SSD every time in an environment where
that's not the case then reliability to me is a secondary Factor after I
determine my performance and storage needs which leads us to the in between
solution hybrid drives these leverage the technology of hard drives and ssds
at the same time but that's a topic that I've covered separately so I'm just
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