SSDs vs Hard Drives as Fast As Possible
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·Techquickie
·2014-05-07
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which is better an SSD or a hard drive honestly it's sort of like asking which
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is better a motorcycle or a semi-truck all right so you might be sitting there
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going that's a weird thing to say lionist why would you say something like
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that and the answer is because they're really not that comparable they're just
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different let's start with performance when it comes to Raw speed ssds are
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faster I see many folks comparing the sequential speed of an SSD to the
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sequential speed of a hard drive and saying oh well they're kind of similar
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but the reality of it is unless you copy large files back and forth all day this
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specification is pretty much meaningless I'm serious it has nothing to do with
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the way that they will that you will perceive the performance in the real
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world ssds are all about little data
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transactions that happen all the time all over the place when you're running
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something like an operating system on them you know an instant message comes
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through a program launches and needs to access a ton of little files all over
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the place these are the times when not having to physically move move ahead
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across a disc allows an SSD to utterly
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destroy a hard drive in terms of performance in system responsiveness any
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modern SSD will be easily several times faster than any hard drive and sometimes
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much more than that okay that's great but what if you have lots of data to
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store and that's your main concern it's not like playing back video or music
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files or looking at your archive of pictures requires blazing fast
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performance so this is where hard drives still Excel at the time of filming this
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$160 buys you either a 256 GB SSD or a 4
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terb yes a 16 times larger hard drive
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for that kind of difference in price per gig you could literally build two hard
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drive based storage boxes and have one of them set up as an off-site backup
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with the money that you saved by not using an SSD based backup solution so
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yes folks for mass storage of data we are a long way away from hard drives
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being replaced by ssds okay but what about reliability now this one's a
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little bit complicated hard drives are pretty reliable these days but as
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devices with moving Parts they will die eventually the good news is they usually
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give warning signs like uh if your hard drive is making clicking noises right
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now for example first check to make sure it hasn't turned into a dolphin then
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replace it if it is still a hard drive um but the bad news is that any kind of
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use will wear them out for ssds reading
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from them a won't really wear them out very much especially if you keep them
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running cool but if you write to them heavily you can kill a consumer grade
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model relatively quickly so I guess I'd
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put it this way in an environment where shock is an everyday occurrence such as
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in a notebook or tablet I would choose SSD every time in an environment where
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that's not the case then reliability to me is a secondary Factor after I
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determine my performance and storage needs which leads us to the in between
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solution hybrid drives these leverage the technology of hard drives and ssds
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at the same time but that's a topic that I've covered separately so I'm just
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going to leave a link here for you for that now speaking of hybrid Solutions an
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