Dispelling 4 Common Misconceptions About HDDs
StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, July 21,2023
HDDs have now disappeared from most computer terminals, but it would still be wrong to regard this classic form of storage as obsolete.
After all, many prejudices that have developed over recent years do not hold up on closer consideration.
Toshiba dispels the most widespread misconceptions:
HDDs do not deliver state-of-the-art performance An enterprise HDD drive with 250MB/s and 400 IO/s certainly cannot keep up with a single enterprise SSD, which transfers around 2,500MB/s and achieves 100,000 IO/s.