Abstract
This IDC study reveals the performance differences between traditional HDDs,
SSDs, and H-HDDs. IDC partnered with a third-party testing firm to run a
complete array of tests to document the performance of these different storage
technologies. The results are vendor agnostic and are meant to highlight the
differences between technologies, not vendors. In addition, IDC offers up its
analysis of the results and insight to the future to help industry participants
understand the future direction of these storage technologies in order to
assist OEMs in choosing the most appropriate storage device for their products.
"The results are in! After months and months of debates and speculation, we' ve
finally put six different drive technologies to the test. Two traditional
mobile PC drives, two solid state drives, and two hybrid hard drives were put
through a battery of tests to determine where they excel, and where they don' t.
The results were both predictable and unexpected, but in the end, our results
have led us to several significant conclusions that we believe will be
eye-opening for those that have anything to do with storage device technologies
in PCs." - Dave Reinsel, group vice president, Storage and Semiconductors
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