Re: General question regarding SSD and harddrive
On 15 Jul 2023 2:30:08 CEST, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
> So I have been looking at new computers and most of them come with SSD's
> but they are so much smaller than my 2 TB computer that I am not sure
> what is better. I read a couple of pieces on different groups but still
> am not sure. SSD's are faster but them have a quarter of the room for
> storage. I don't use my machine for basic stuff and am not a heavy
> gamer. Any advice about this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Moe
What form factor? Probably all 2.5" HDDs larger than 500GB use SMR these days
(at least WD for sure). After using them for a while now (bought first one
before the SMR fuss, not knowing that), there is couple of downsides:
1) The disks are still doing something. Even when not mounted, the head is
moving. In some notebooks it can be pretty loud.
2) Random access can be painfully slow. I have system installed on SSD and
still can feel it sometimes.
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