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Five Years of PC Storage Performance Compared

Posted by timothy on from the professor-it-seems-to-be-getting-cheaper dept.

theraindog writes "PC storage has come a long way in the last few years. Perpendicular recording tech has fueled climbing capacities, 10k-RPM spindle speeds have migrated from SCSI to Serial ATA, Native Command Queuing has made mechanical drives smarter, and a burgeoning SSD market looks set to fundamentally change the industry. The Tech Report has taken a look back at the last four and a half years of PC storage solutions, probing the capacity and performance of a whopping 70 different notebook and desktop hard drives, SSDs, and exotic RAM disks. There's a lot of test data to digest, but the overall trends are easy to spot, potentially foretelling the future of PC storage."

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  1. A similar history will play out for SSDs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    The current models don't spin very quickly, but in the future people will pay a premium for the increased throughput in 5000, 7500, and 10K RPM models.

    1. Re:A similar history will play out for SSDs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      The current models don't spin very quickly...

      That's very observant of you to notice that SSDs don't spin very quickly. But I'm not sure I agree with your assessment that they'll spin faster in the future.

  2. Re:It is said... by hansraj · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unfortunately, I have yet to find a single drive to store my whole collection... :-(

    Sex drive should be enough of a drive to store all your collection, or at least to try to.

  3. Overall Trends by basementman · · Score: 5, Funny

    The overall trend on one page instead of 12 is that storage is getting cheaper, bigger and faster. Oh boy...

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  4. Re:It is said... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you implying that your disk isn't hard enough?

  5. Re:It is said... by mrsteveman1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well it used to be floppy so we're improving

  6. Re:It is said... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why do you collect it? There is a near INFINTE supply on the web, easily found for free. If you are storing over 1.5 TB or pr0n for personal consumption....wow.

  7. Re:It is said... by pitchpipe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now it's in a solid state!

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  8. Re:It is said... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Or maybe he can't delete it because the bytes are all stuck together.