Thursday, 28 May 2015 00:00

Advancement of solid state drives

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b2ap3_thumbnail_iStock_000016084473XSmall.jpgNew technologies forge ahead and slowly but steadily capture the global market. Along with that, choosing a hard drive for your computer becomes even harder endeavor. Every customer already has a dozen options to choose form and each option is attractive in its own way. If you don’t want to miss a good opportunity of choosing the most suitable and productive device, then you should at least follow and study the latest news from this industry.

There is no doubt that you can use same equipment year after year and don’t strive for excellence, although by following that paradigm your computer would hopelessly lag behind and will not be able to perform its functions properly. It is important to pay attention to all technological novelties and stay updated, like following comprehensive insurance news in order to get your car successfully insured and know the subject matter.

Ordinary hard drives are still leading in terms of mass consumption. Experts say that they won’t be out of the global market at least for another decade. However, new hard drives also enjoy growing popularity. And I am talking about so-called solid-state disks.
This disks work on the basis of flash memory and allow to increase productivity and capacity by several times.


Such storage devices have several other advantages. They are mechanically reliable and more stable in terms of data loss. Flash drives have high throughput rates. Starting threshold from which the developers start the count is 200 Mbytes/sec.

At present, many of the largest computer equipment manufacturers develop this market segment and constantly have something new to offer. Although there is one essential disadvantage in this case, which is a high cost.

If we calculate the cost of one gigabyte of information using ordinary hard drive and new device based on flash memory, you will get a terrifying difference. This makes the new product available to a very limited circle of consumers only.

If we refer to the computer hardware forum, same as we would refer to car insurance forum, when we want to clarify a controversial moment, then we would see that at the moment experts recommend choosing hard drive on the basis of price vs. quality criteria, which should be fairly balanced.

If you simply don’t need huge memory volumes, then you can easily find yourself a fairly suitable option in terms of memory features and performance.
FYI, SSDs are produced by virtually all leading hard drive manufacturers.

Last modified on Thursday, 28 May 2015 13:14
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