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- Many people don’t realize that the slowest part of their computer is the hard
- drive. The read and write speeds of a hard drive affects the computer’s
- performance. The most affected processes are the boot time and time it takes to
- open an application.
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- I decided to explore the speed differences between several types of hard drives.
- In all the trials I used a program called Parkdale for speed measurements.
- \*Please note that these are just the hard drives I had lying around, there can
- be great variation of performances between different manufacturers.
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- 5400 RPM Toshiba Laptop HHD
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- 7200 RPM HHD
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- Samsung 840 EVO SSD
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- Kingston SSD
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- Conclusion
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- It may be easy to conclude that SSDs are fast and you should just use those.
- However, there is a time and a place for each of these HHDs due to their price
- point. It would cost a ridiculous amount of money to have two terabytes of SSD
- storage on my computer. My main computer has 120 GB SSD for my installation of
- Linux and a 2 TB HHD for all my personal files. In this case I get the best of
- both worlds. On one hand I get incredibly fast storage for all my programs which
- depends on read and write speeds of the HHD. On the other hand I get relatively
- cheap storage for all my movies and pictures.
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