• The hard drive is dead; long live solid-state storage

    Posted on June 27, 2022 at 02:44 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

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    Brian Livingston

    By Brian Livingston

    The death of hard disk drives may be greatly exaggerated — after all, HDD manufacturers sold more than 250 million units worldwide in 2021 — but solid-state drives, which store data in semiconductors with no moving parts, finally overtook the unit sales of HDDs last year. The writing is on the wall for ye olde spinning platters.

    SSDs have many advantages over HDDs, including being much smaller in size and offering faster throughput. But even after years of cost improvements, SSDs are still a much more expensive choice.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.26.0, 2022-06-27).

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