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What makes a SSD better than other things?

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I was wondering the benefits that an SSD gives that are better than other alternatives.

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What alternatives are you considering for what purpose? For example, magnetic tape is a good medium for backup in a data center.

• This reply was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by kees_b.

You had mag tape?

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In my day I’d tie the onion to my belt and sort my punch cards. Later we used paper tape.

It was the fashion at the time.

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See, for example, https://www.nakivo.com/blog/tape-backup-overview/ .

18 TB (uncompressed) on https://www.ibm.com/products/lto-9-tape-media for around USD 100. Not bad, isn’t?

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SSDs are generally faster than things like HDDs. The main downside is the price.

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SSDs are considered better than traditional hard drives because they offer faster data access, greater reliability, and lower power consumption. They have no moving parts, making them less prone to mechanical failures, and their faster read/write speeds result in quicker boot times and file transfers. The durability and performance advantages make SSDs a top choice for modern computing needs.

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SSDs are harder to break than a HDD and it’s slim and portable along with more efficient power consumption and faster. SSD are overall just better at everything.

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The benefits that you can get in SSD than other alternatives are that it is faster and quicker, it is more durable and is energy-efficient, can handle heavy loads well and doesn’t heat up fast than other alternatives that we currently have in our society at the moment.

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