I’ve written a few times why solid-state hard drives (SSDs) are a sea change, similar to our transition from CRT to LCD a few years ago. Anandtech gets it right in an exhaustive analysis of why this is so. The biggest problem with traditional (spinning) hard drives is not … An SSD may internally do some parallel tasks, but effectively it’s the enormously reduced average seek time (~4ms on a standard 7200 RPM hard disk, ~0ms on an SSD) that makes the SSDs so damned fast. …

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