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SSDs vs HDDs for external hard drives

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Mar 15, 202638549 views

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I am planning on getting a new external drive, and was considering the new SSDs over HDDs. Read/write performance for many small files (0 - 500KB) is of highest priority for my use, it's more important than storage capacity. I have just gone through an external HDD after about 1 year of heavy read/…

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Would a SSD be faster for many small reads/writes? Quite. This is the whole purpose of solid-state drives - no moving parts, so virtually no seek time (see the question What are the pros and cons of a solid-state drive? for more details). Are file s…

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