However, that’s not nearly as fast as hard drives can go.
Higher-end drives easily exceed 200 MB/s when it comes to sequentialread and write speeds.
10,000 RPM mechanical hard drives often have sustained transfer rates around the 250 MB/s mark.
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Best of all, it doesn’t seem engineers and scientists have reached the limit of HDD technology either.
Of course, we’re talking about the capacities of single-drive units that anyone can buy off the shelf.
In May of 2022, Western Digital announced26TB hard drives.
Seagate
Seagate announced 30TB drives slated for 2023, and50TB+drives slated for 2026.
Related:What Is Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) in Hard Drives?
Recovering data from a mechanical disk platter in afailed drivemay be possible when a failed SSD is unreadable.
Seagate
These drives contain a small amount of fast flash memory that acts as a data cache.
The main place we’ve seen such drives disappear are in mobile devices such as laptops.
