[Discuss] SSD drives vs. Mechanical drives

[Jack Coats]

For a laptop or even primary drive on small desktop, SSD.  For bulk data
anywhere, HD.
HD, like tapes used to be, is my 'security blanket'.


On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:

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> On 05/07/2014 03:49 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> > Jerry Feldman wrote:
> >> Why do they lie about sync completion.
> > To inflate benchmark performance numbers.
> >
> Ok.
> So, if you had to buy a new 1TB drive and you had a choice between a
> high quality consumer SSD and a mechanical drive at the same price, what
> would you buy?
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