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 Re: external hard drive storage advice | |
docsmiles17 wrote:
...I know the ssd is more durable but is there any noticable speed difference between ssd and hdd?
SSD runs at the speed of memory, while HDD is a collection of spinning platters. When I swapped out my i7 desktop system HDD for a SSD, the boot time (from power off, to login window) went from over one minute to about twelve seconds. SSD is way much more faster than HDD.
My desktop has two internal SSD (sys & work), plus four internal HDD, at 2GB, 3GB, 3GB, and 4GB. The 2x 3GB and 1x 4GB internal drives hold my 'online' archive, and a matching set of mirror-disks holds the archive backup. The backup drives are SCSI HDD in single-disk enclosures.
When I travel, I use a portable Panasonic 500GB T5 SSD for backup: files are loaded into the phone's microSD card through a USB 3 card reader (with OTG cable), and later can be off-loaded to the SSD (with the same OTG cable). The card reader and SSD have the same throughput on my phone, notebook, and desktop computers - it's fast.
Over the last twenty years, I've probably bought and used at least three-dozen SCSI HDD drives, internal and external (some start as internal and go external, later in life). Over that time, I've had three HDD failures; two were completely my fault (wrong P/S with same connector). The other fail was probably a power bump (many years ago), from which the gear is now isolated. All three times, I was able to restore all from the backup copies, with no problems.
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