Thai flood aids storage efficiency, SSDs

[McLovin]

The recent flooding in Thailand and its flow-on effect on hard drive manufacturers may whip businesses into becoming more efficient with storage, and increase the adoption of solid-state drives (SSDs), according to Ideas International analysts.

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[moonshine]

SSDs are pretty fast too since they really don't need a defrag so that's a minus when it comes to disk maintenance, SSDs wears out much easier than HDDs though so it's always good to have a backup of the files first.

 

[McLovin]

Agreed. A friend has one and he loves it to death, but he hasn't realised that they soon die.