So, by this article, I’m gonna highlight every basic thing what you’ve all needed to know while buying an HDD or SSD. But first I want you to make clear about the concept of these two storage devices and which are: HDD: The full form of HDD is Hard disk drives. It is first introduced by IBM in 1956. Its store lots of data at cheaper price rate by using magnetism data storage technology....
A lot of different kinds of storage devices are available in the market, but Hard Disk Drivers still hold the strength to find a place in most of the desktop or laptop computers. It all about its decent speed, which comes with a pretty cheap price tag; And not just like SSD, it doesn’t come with the fixed write cycles. But before purchasing any storage device for your computer system, it always important to know every bit about the drive’s characteristics....
That’s also a great policy in general, by the way – separating your Operating System installation from your data storage all the way at the base hardware itself is a good way to keep your data secure. Even if you didn’t, it’s a common and sensible practice while upgrading to just keep your old drive as a backup – I still have an old 40 GB Samsung from 2004 that has somehow survived for nearly a decade and a half without even a single failure (I keep waiting for the thing to show some sign of complaint so I can throw it out, but it’s being stubborn)....
As we all know, every data that we saved in our computer is written on blocks. ‘Sequential Read/Write Speed’ simply means that how fast that drive can write or read the data from a series of blocks. On the other hand, when we turn on our computer, it starts to process numbers of files from multiple locations, which simply means that the drive needs to access the data from random blocks, again and again; And that’s where the ‘Random Read Speed’ comes in....
Most of us associate the value and power of a PC based on its hard drive capacity. Well to an extent, it is true. After all, the newer (and presumably better) PCs come with the vigorous HDD capacity of around 1TB or even more. You may already know that it is almost impossible to predict what kind of computing needs and habits many people might get. So, if an individual who usually downloads, uploads, and stores a large amount of content is most likely to run out of the storage quickly; And the internal hard drive might prove to be insufficient to meet the needs of a guy like this....
