Everybody knows the downside to SSD’s. You’ll never know when the darn thing conks out on you. The MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) is next to crap. Sure it’s lightning fast. But it’s so darn expensive. And then there’s the issue of not having the SSD get too full because you’ll end up making it run really slow considerably. The write speeds go way up and go way down. It’s inconsistent.
And then now here comes an old technology that just got reinvented. The good old trusty Hard Drive. It’s called the Hard Rectangular Disk or HRD. The great thing about this is that it’s MTBF is just like regular circular plattered hard drives but with one big difference, it consumes a lot less power. They claim this new technology only consumes less than 4Watts of power. And the fact that it’s gonna be a lot more stable and faster than regular hard drives is a BIG win over the SSD.
Source: APCmag
How HRD works:
DataSlide applies technology in new, patented ways to achieve unprecedented high performance 160,000 IOPS & 500MB/sec and low power <4 Watts for a magnetic storage device:
- A piezoelectric actuator keeps the rectangular media in precise motion
- A diamond solid lubricant coating protects the surfaces for years of worry free service
A massively parallel 2D array of magnetic heads reads from or writes to up to 64 embedded heads at a time
Source: ZDNet
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