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Solid state drives (SSDs) have established themselves as the dominant storage technology for personal computers thanks to their immense speed and reliability. However, there are emerging technologies and potential contenders in the arena:
Competing Technologies:
- Optane Memory (3D XPoint): Developed by Intel, Optane offers even faster read/write speeds than SSDs for frequently accessed data. Currently, its usage is niche and expensive, limiting its widespread adoption.
- DRAM-based Storage: Similar to computer RAM, this technology offers exceptional latency and performance, ideal for real-time appli
Honestly, it is all in how you look at drives. The SSD has its built in problems.
From the start, this memory drive is in constant degradation from just being used..
And you have to do your homework. The SSD uses different kinds of memory and each one impacts how long the life of the memory drive will continue to work.
The original SSD drive used an expensive memory, was crazy fast and had a write wear life of about 300,000 write events. As the industry strove to drive the prices down, they put less expensive memory in the drive. This memory was slower, and had a shorter life, about 100,000 write
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Is there anything that can compete or is better than a solid state drive?
Depends upon your definition of compete. Currently you have 3 basic choices;
- Hard Disk Drive (HDD) - which is pretty fast, pretty reliable, non-volatile, and has no issue with a lot of writes. And it can store a large of data for low cost.
- Solid State Drive (SSD) - Very fast, very mechanically reliable, non-volatile, uses very little power, but can only do a limited number of writes to a flash cell.By using clever management software, these can improve writing reliability. It is more expensive than a HDD of the same size.
- RA
A ram drive. Pure ram, with an on-board battery to keep it alive when power goes off. Obvious, it requires to be powered on regularly to retain data. But it will both source and sink data as fast as any interface can handle it.
It depends on what you mean by BETTER? Do you mean FASTER? More RELIABLE? GREATER STORAGE CAPACITY? LOWER PRICE? INCREASED LONG-TERM RETENTION, HIGHER CHANCE OF DATA RECOVERY, etc, etc, etc…
Better is in the eyes of the user and what they are using it for and what they need it to do.
Keep in mind that SSD drives come in many forms, sizes and prices. They are not all created equal. For Example: For a standard 2.5" 500GB SSD you can spend anywhere from about $25 to $150 and find warranties of 1, 3, 5 and 10 years.
I felt that I needed to expand on this post since I first wrote this. Yes, I could
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Money. SSDs are way, way more expensive than spinning rust. You can get a 2 terabyte spinning rust drive at Costco for $39. A 2 terabyte SSD is hundreds of dollars.
Longevity. An SSD wears out. Every time you record information to it, you damage the memory cells. This problem is getting worse, not better. MLC drives wear out faster than SLC drives. The newest TLC drives wear out even faster. Drive manufacturers do all sorts of under-the-hood trickery, like moving information around on the drive, to help ensure all the cells wear evenly.
Data recovery. As a result of this wear leveling, the opera
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I assume we are talking about a system disk. In the area of capacity Hard Disks are still the kings. I was recently offered a 14 TB NAS drive. I think that’s astonishing. So we’re talking about loading Windows and running apps, the big ones that need to swap stuff to and from disk a lot. M.2 NVME is the king here. It’s still an SSD, you can clone your system drive to it and boot from it, but the form factor is very different. It needs a special connection to the CPU because the PCI-e slots are now a bottle neck. An M.2 NVME SSD in a PCI-e slot is no faster than a conventional SSD. But in that
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You mean other than cloud storage? Even without moving parts, SSDs break down over time. The issue with cloud storage is it’s inability to remain secure from intentional prying by those who can’t keep their noses out of your business. (They’re just server storage anyway at a remote site.) While an SSD seems faster, it is a different medium and loses it’s efficiency as it is used. While slower, the good old HDD is still more reliable if you use one only for file backup purposes aside from the one(s) you use as your working drive(s).
Well I'm shore somebody working on something like a SSD. SSD do have some issues. one is lasting a long time. and second is cost. The issues with storage is having to uses platers or something simpler to SSD. Both work by writing and reading. So can changes the materials but just same basic tech. SSD does have somethings that a hard drive can’t compete, Like speed. and a fall. drop a hard drive when spinning and mite be done. drop a SSD and pick up and mite have fix a chip and boom it readable again. Price and size is limited.
By most (but not all) measures, SDDs are “better”:
- SSDs are faster than HDDs.
- SSDs use less energy than HDDs.
- SSDs have no moving parts, unlike HDDs, so motor and head/solenoid failures are not an issue.
- SSDs are silent, while HDDs generate some noise from the motor and head mechanisms.
- SSDs weigh less than HDDs, for comparable amounts of storage.
- SSDs don’t require defragmenting to improve performance, because there is no time delay for mechanical rotation or head positioning activities that HDDs have.
However, nothing is perfect and nothing is free. Here are some potential downsides to SSDs:
- Althoug
Well, a good hard drive.
Larger capacity for a fraction of the price, longer lifetime, and even after most failures, still a chance to try and recover data from it. It is all a matter of how you define “better”, as speed isn’t everything…
YES. I have built a file server for my home use. It has a 4x 4TB HDD set as Windows 10 Pro Mirrored Storage Space (cheap software RAID but better than motherboard RAID). This ensures redundancy and the speed is manageable for home use. The OS is installed in a Toshiba 1TB HDD.
Why all-HDD?
I considered buying an SSD for the OS but my set-up is run 24/7. Think of this, SSD improves boot-up and app start-up when launched. In a system with 24/7 runtime, boot-up and new app start-up is rarely done, once everything is in RAM (my setup has 32GB, upgradable to 64GB) having an HDD is a non-issue and hav
… (more)Give you the possibility of data recovery following a failure of the drive.
When an SSD fails, there is a better than even chance that your data is irrecoverable. And an SSD will fail with no warning of any kind.
By contrast, an HDD usually (not always!) fails gradually, with bad sectors, clicking noises, and general bad behavior. You usually have time to copy your data to another drive.
A better SSD. They are not all the same. A M.2 will normally read and write faster than a drop in for a STD. HD.
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