Solid State Drives Vs Hard Disk Drive
SSDs are dropping in price and I thought it was worth looking at the differences between these two types of backing storage
Tag Archives: Hard drive
The First Hard Disk
3.75MB of storage is the same as a couple of floppies. The video below shows the first hard disk based backing storage unit.
The drive is composed of 50 disks (100 writeable surfaces) each with 100 tracks.
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New hard drive technology
A big thanks to Christy for bringing this to my attention.
A new technological enhancement to the hard drive could make this technology last a few more years. The big disadvantage with hard drive technology over solid state is speed. This advance could increase the speed of hard drives by hundreds of times.
Here is the original article and here are some break downs, 1 & 2.
