2013年4月30日 · You state 2w vs 6w SSD and HDD, that's peak power useage, if you are reading web pages, the SSD will be idle alot of the time, whereas the HDD will spin. The SSD longevity is 1/4 longer than average HDD i've read, which relats to transport and production energy, and it uses less raw materials. At 50% idle time, the comparison is 1w vs 6w.

There are rumors that SSD is more durable than HDD. To divide question into 2 different scenarios: === 1) When used in PC/Laptop === People say that SSD produced in recent years can last longer than HDD (if we consider the same amount read/write operations). Also, more durable when laptop drops. Is that true? === 2) When used as external drive ===

The considerations between external HDD and SSD are storage size and price. You can get multiple terabytes nowadays for the price of a midsize SSD. So if speed beats price and size for you, buy an SSD. Much of it depends on how you're going to connect it. USB 2.0 will be a bottleneck making the SSD pointless. But eSATA or USB 3.0 would do it ok.

2023年8月18日 · The second reference is more interesting. Figure six is most interesting in particular. If a lightly used SSD (and an unpowered disc meets this definition) is kept at 55 degrees C, the data retention is up to 16 years. However, I still stand by my answer not to trust either SSD or spinning rust for more than a small number of years. –

2020年6月22日 · I have a MacBook Pro similar to the OP. Using Blackmagic Disk Speed Test, the difference between an HDD and an SSD using USB 3.0 is dramatic. I found an SSD to be roughly 7 times faster than a 7200RPM HDD. The HDD speed …

Visual Studio Blog recommends using a SSD: Hard drive type matters! And here is another trick to make solution load even faster. Visual Studio telemetry shows that machines with an SSD storage load solutions 2-3 times faster than a regular hard drive. As such, we strongly recommend considering an upgrade to SSD if you are using a regular hard ...

2020年5月1日 · When you perform actions, the most disk access comes from windows itself. So the biggest speedboost you get is when Windows itself runs from the SSD. When you launch a program, the program is copied entirely into memory, and run from there. The larger your program is, the slower your program will startup if it starts from a traditional HDD vs ...

2017年3月20日 · internal mechanical drive vs external SSD. Edit: Here I am looking at an actual USB SSD drive rather than a SATA SSD in a USB enclosure. For example, a MyPassport or similar SSD external mass storage device. However, many of the points in the current answers are still valid. Thanks everyone.

2015年9月2日 · Optimizing the number of writes is one way to expect a much longer life of SSD. Practically for an SSD with 75 TBW assuming you write 40 GB / day it might fail after about 5 years. Basically by downloading movies (much larger files sized in GBs) on to SSD you are consuming its Write Cycles. –

2014年7月30日 · My question is whether an SSD is shock-proof due to the absence of moving parts, so I don't have to be too careful about dropping it, etc. More generally, I'm interested in how sturdy SSDs are. I know that HDDs could be quite sensitive due to the large number of very fine and small moving parts. An SSD seems structurally more resistant to damage.