All well and good but capacity ain’t everything and, fast as they are, the traditional hard disk drive has a basic design, which simply cannot be made to run at the sorts of speeds the rest of your system can cope with. If sheer capacity is paramount …. This one is a way-away yet, but we can certainly expect SSDs to start developing very quickly now and there’s a lot of technology filtering down from the server market to come. Desktop drives are turning solid state. …

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