Solid-state drives are universally faster than old-school hard-disk ... figure out the approximate speed of a laptop or desktop PC’s storage drive. ... 2, and SATA SSD comparison chart. PCWorld.

The average age of the hard disk drives in Backblaze’s study was 49.63 months or just over four years old. The average age of the SSDs was only 12.66 months or just over a year old. MORE FROM ...

SSD reliability is only slightly better than HDD, Backblaze says A surprising outcome for the first SSD-based AFR report By Alfonso Maruccia March 13, 2023, 8:39 24 comments ...

When we benchmarked the Toshiba Satellite P75-A7200 with its stock 750GB, 5400-rpm hard drive (a Western Digital Travelstar HTS541075A9E680), the machine posted a Notebook WorldBench 8.1 score of 279.

The optical link supports much longer cable lengths and preserves the full multi-gigabyte-per-second speeds of PCIe 5.0. Kioxia has confirmed successful PCIe 5.0 32GT/s x4 lane operation ...