SSD vs HDD is a hot contest right now, and hybrid drives offer solid middle ground. As of now, picking between SSDs, HDDs, and SSHDs is quite tricky.

Since SSD came out, the prices on HDDs have gone down by a lot, and you can now find quality 1TB HDD options for about 30 bucks a pop.

If we’re comparing the SSD vs HDD in terms of speed, there is a clear winner. Due to the nature of the SSD’s flash memory, accessing bits of data within the drive is extremely easy and fast.

A 1TB HDD from Seagate, on the other hand, will cost you significantly less at just $50. The price difference gets even worse as you start looking at larger and larger storage sizes.

I’d argue this’d be an SSD “win” for all but the most peak power-strapped systems. Said another way, even if the SSD were actively reading and writing the whole time, thereby burning more power than ...

SSD vs HDD - Real world benefits you can see today (Image credit: Future) Sony has confirmed the PS5 will use SSD storage. Microsoft has done the same for the Xbox Series X.

The pros and cons of these respective types of drives are well-known (see our piece on SSD vs HDD). SSDs are speedy and optimal for performance, while HDD drives are cheaper and good for mass storage.

SSD vs HDD in a NAS However, hard drives currently offer higher storage capacity than SSDs. The highest capacity hard drive available is 22TB, compared to the maximum 8TB SATA SSD.

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The HDD is handy for a 3-2-1 backup strategy: 3 copies of your data on 2 different media, with 1 of those copies stored remotely off-site. The hard drive forms part of my long-term storage design.

For testing, I have three storage devices: a Samsung 860 Evo SATA SSD, a Samsung 970 Evo NVMe SSD, and a WD Black SATA HDD. I tested several loading sequences that you're likely to encounter ...

So HDDs, effectively no. The mechanism is more likely to fail before the electronic memory gets spontaneously erased, and for an SSD, the physical connector to the computer.