Selecting a hard drive: SSD vs HDD The choice used to be simple.... HDD was cheaper and you selected the fastest biggest one you could afford. But the turning point has now been reached with SSD drives, just like it did with CRT and LCD monitors (remember how quickly those changed). I doubt I will now ever buy another HDD drive. Comparing SSD with HDD reliability, the speed of SSD is usually about 900% faster than 15 k HHD drives and the reliability is now almost twice that of the HDD drives. Potts said that the return on investment on SSD is superb, as the same price is paid for the same capacity as 15 000 rpm disks, but with a 900% speed boost and the extra benefit of a much lower operating cost. Heating and cooling is 20 to 30% less, while power usage is up to 70% less. Couple that with a seven- to nine-year drive life and this gives the SSD drives a huge advantage over HDD, according to Potts. See http://ift.tt/2aibpWN
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