Mursalin Khandaker
As the technology moving forward the old innovation are replaced by new and improved counterparts. We are here with another important topic related to your computers disk space or known as Hard Disk or HDD. For over a decade the launch of solid state drive for consumer market made the HDD look old and sluggish.
Now you can find a 500gb SATA SSD at around 5000-6000BDT and that is a huge price drop for the consumer market. If we think about the mechanical Hard Disk parts a 1tb disk drive will cost you around 3500-4000BDT. It may seem that it is less in price and value for the money. But in reality that is not the case. The best of the HDD segment, for reference both WD caviar or Seagate Barracuda will offer a read speed around 150-180 Mbps and comparatively 1/4 of that will be it’s writing speed. And in the same SATA interface a flash-based SSD will offer a read speed around 500-550mbps and wite speed at similar or less from the write speed. This is more than 4-5 times from the HDD.
If we think wisely an SSD provides much more value over an HDD both price wise and undoubtedly performance wise. A big slow drive is much worse than a slightly smaller amazingly fast drive. It is evident that SSD provides real-time performance gain in file transfer and application loading time.
Yes, from our viewpoint all kind of computer user should replace the HDD with SSD drives, as they are more affordable than ever. You can find even 960gb or 1tb size Solid state drives at around 9500+-BDT in Bangladesh market.