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

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