Five Years of PC Storage Performance Compared 90
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."
A similar history will play out for SSDs (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.
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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.
Overall Trends (Score:5, Funny)
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Are you implying that your disk isn't hard enough?
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Well it used to be floppy so we're improving
Re:A similar history will play out for SSDs (Score:5, Funny)
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.
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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.
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Or maybe he can't delete it because the bytes are all stuck together.