Feck it did, can't bloody edit on a Samsung phone it just deleted the post
Feck it did, can't bloody edit on a Samsung phone it just deleted the post
For those of you wondering what an SSD hard drive is, it's a hard drive that uses the latest technology for data storage, SSD is short for Solid State Device, conventional IDE and SATA store/record data magnetically onto the surface of some metal spinning discs with a magnetic surface much like the analog magnetic recording tape that used to be used in recording studios before digital audio recording was invented, although the data recorded on the discs is digital rather than analog, but the principle is the same.
Now in order for the metal discs to be able to spin smoothly at very high revolutions per minute, some conventional hard drive discs spin at about 5600, others as as fast as 10,000 revolutions per minute, there needs to be a low-friction ball bearing system, which over time wears out and the discs cant spin as freely as they used to, they heat up and eventually fail, the Sata hard drives I was using in my studio pc did feel pretty toasty to the touch.
In an SSD hard drive, the data is stored electrically in very small transistors etched onto slivers of silicon wafers, you could think of an SSD hard drive as being very similar to a usb thumb drive memory stick, since there is no longer the need for a set of magnetically coated spinning metal discs, or the ball bearing system to allow the discs to spin freely, SSD hard drives do not suffer from the same failure mechanisms that conventional IED and Sata hard drives do, the data throughput is also much faster in an SSD hard drive too, in order to achieve high data throughput speeds in a conventional IED, or Sata hard drive, the discs need to spin at very high revolutions per minute, usually IED hard drives can manage a maximum of about 133mb/sec data throughput, I read somewhere that a Sata (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) hard drive is capable of about 150mb/sec, I may be wrong though, since there's no need for spinning discs in an SSD, the data throughput is limited only by how fast the transistors can switch on and off, and the speed of electrons, usually, as I have read somewhere, an SSD hard drive is capable of about 580mb/sec data throughput, data throughput refers to the maximum data read/write speeds that can be achieved.
SSD Hard drives have two big advantages over conventional IDE and Sata hard drives, firstly an SSD hard drive is virtually silent when operating (perfect for recording studio applications), and secondly, they don't overheat because there are no mechanical moving parts that can generate heat from friction, they also do tend to be smaller in size too.
Check out this interesting article about the lifespan before failure of SSD hard drives that I found:
https://www.howtogeek.com/322856/how...s-really-last/
Considering that conventional IED and Sata hard drives are estimated to last about 5 years before they fail.
Last edited by DrNomis_44; 21-05-2019 at 08:20 PM.
Sorted it out for you Dave! We've got your back!Originally Posted by dave.king1
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Good onya Brendan, cheers!
Thanks Brendan the phone is a PITA to edit with as it only gives me a delete option once I hit edit and then it's not optional
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