Looks like a little friendly competition brewing over on Ultramobile PC Tips. CTitanic and JKK are posting dueling videos on performance and the future of drives. Watch both of the videos and see ...

They found that the average SSD has a much higher storage embodied factor (SEF) than an HDD, averaging 0.16 for SSDs and just 0.02 for HDDs. SEF refers to the rate of CO2 emissions in relation to ...

An SSD differs from a standard HDD (hard disk drive) because it uses no moving parts. An HDD uses a magnetic spinning disk and a high-speed arm to load and save data. This process is much slower than ...

An SSD technically will. I have an original IBM XT with a factory-installed 10MB HDD that's completely readable, and a Compaq Portable I that was built shortly after with an HDD on a hard card ...

SSD vs HDD in a NAS However, hard drives currently offer higher storage capacity than SSDs. The highest capacity hard drive available is 22TB, compared to the maximum 8TB SATA SSD.

The worst-case scenario here was with Cyberpunk 2077, which was over 10 times slower to load on an HDD versus an SSD. If this doesn’t convince you to swap drives, I suppose nothing will.

I’d argue this’d be an SSD “win” for all but the most peak power-strapped systems. Said another way, even if the SSD were actively reading and writing the whole time, thereby burning more power than ...

A customer evaluating an SSD versus an HDD isn't solely concerned with a drive's innate chance of failure over time. There's also the question of how the drive will withstand shock.

Western Digital’s Black2 combo SSD/HDD promises to deliver speed and capacity. Marrying a 120GB solid-state drive and a 1TB mechanical drive in a single 2.5-inch, 9.5mm package, the Black2 fits ...

PS4 SSD – Performance Improvements Over Standard HDD Straight off the bat the biggest improvement that you’ll get by stuffing an SSD into your PS4 is improved loading times.