Posts Tagged 'HDD'

Competition between SSD and HDD

The debate about the reliability of SSDs has been going on for years. There are several factors in SSDs favor. First and foremost, they provide impressive speeds, allowing them to be used both for home use and in servers that require high-speed data access. At the same time, all SSDs have the key feature of having a limited amount of information that can be written. Simply put, while a conventional HDD can last for decades until it fails, newer drives will cease to function once the threshold...

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A Quick Insight into Physical Shock Damage on Hard Disk Drive (HDD)

As we all know, hard disk drive (HDD) can be corrupted for miscellaneous reasons, such as virus infect, shock damage or electricity failures, etc. This post will lead you to learn more about physical shock damage on HDD. Hard disk drive is vulnerable due to its mechanical and moving components. So, in order to avoid data loss on hard drive, you should protect your drive against all possible risks to your utmost. One of the most common physical damage is shock damage. Therefore, in the...

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How Will Humidity Damage Hard Disk Drive (HDD)?

According to relevant researches, in comparison to heat, humidity can make more serious damage to a hard disk drive (HDD). Therefore, in this article, we will probe into how humidity damages hard drive. The article "What Is the Safest Temperature for Your Hard Drive" has introduced a lot about how overheat can destroy a hard disk drive (HDD). Also, in reality, a majority of users have already realized the danger of overheat. However, actually, similar to heat, humidity can cause destructive...

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