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>That's for non SSD drives. Yep, clarified in my edit. >So every other laptop/desktop you're gonna get with those storage sizes also has rotating rust disks,
by pabb 12y ago
>That's for non SSD drives.
Yep, clarified in my edit.
>So every other laptop/desktop you're gonna get with those storage sizes also has rotating rust disks, with are more volatile due to moving parts, have much worse read/write speeds and are noisy.
That's cute. So now hard disks are so obtrusive, fallible, and out-dated that they're literally not an option anymore?
I think some people have such a love affair for the acronym SSD that they forget, disk access is still hundreds of thousands of clock cycles regardless.
See: http://imgur.com/pQ8BriQ http://imgur.com/pQ8BriQ
SSD benchmarks are clearly better than HDD all around, but not by the orders of magnitude that you seem to believe.
- coldtea 12y ago>That's cute. So now hard disks are so obtrusive, fallible, and out-dated that they're literally not an option anymore? I think some people have such a love affair for the acronym SSD that they forget, disk access is still hundreds of thousands of clock cycles regardless A time N improvement is still better that no or marginal improvement, even if it's not 2 orders of magnitude better. It makes all the difference between waiting for 5 minutes for some IO process to finish and waiting for 1 minute. 1 second would have been nice, but 1 minute is already a game changer.