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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."

7 of 90 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Overall Trends by beckett · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    it's just

  2. Re:Overall Trends by beckett · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    easier to

  3. Re:Overall Trends by beckett · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    read

  4. Re:Overall Trends by beckett · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    spread out over multiple pages.

    sorry i got lazy.

  5. Re:Great Technology? by Dest · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've never had one die that quickly on me.

  6. Re:Overall Trends by 4phun · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Burma Shave...

  7. Trolls impersonating me again? LMAO... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Just wanted to say I'm sorry to everyone for my rant. I've started taking my meds again so you won't have to worry about that again...apk" - by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 12, @01:42AM (#28665607)

    See my subject-line, & that rather transparent impersonation of myself by the "infamous Mr. Troll", a jealous nobody... LOL!

    Mr. Troll? "Your performance is DOWN, lately...", &, that's a rather puny retaliation, alongside the effete mod-downs: As neither "trollish action" stands up very well, vs. facts I laid out, period.

    (Not even a "nice try", troll!)

    APK

    P.S.=> Why don't you apply yourself in this science, or other area you may possibly have strength in, instead, to attempt to improve YOUR condition of life, & quite possibly that of others also, instead of being the puny troll you are?

    Then again, I may be expecting too much from "the likes of you", troll (lmao)... & understand this one thing:

    Hey - I am just a guy, who got lucky but worked hard in applying what I've learned is all, & had some recognition for it... I.E.-> I can "get the job done", but that is it & my personal estimation of myself alongside this quote:

    "But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." - Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 10

    (AND, by the grace of God - Hey: Anyone who applies himself, can do it (quite unlike a TRUE "Anonymous COWARD" such as yourself, that has to resort to impersonating others))... apk