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Are there big differences in speed between different hard drives?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 202610089 views
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When buying a (consumer-level) hard disk, I normally only pay attention to storage capacity. Is it worth to compare drive speeds also, and if yes, how can this be done?

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Yes, it's worth it to compare drive speeds if getting your data more quickly holds any advantage for you. For the home user, it's typically a matter of convenience. For a professional server, faster drives mean faster performance under disk I/O load…

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