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Upgrade options for storage

Overview presented by: TADIWA E CHIKATI

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Consider your storage needs
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• What is most important for you?

• Is it:
• capacity?
• the format?
• the connection?
• 24/7 reliability?
• speed of reading/writing?

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Hard Disk Drives
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• These are mechanical with moving parts

• Available with very large capacities
• Fit 3.5 and 2.5 inch bays
• Tried and tested technology
• Read/write access relatively slow

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Suitable applications for HDDs
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• Home office
• Small business environment
• Enterprise businesses
• Data centres
• DVR

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Solid State Technology
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• Commonly called SSD

• Has no moving parts
• Can have extremely fast read/write speeds
• Reliable for 24/7 working

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SSD formats
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• SATA connections will fit in 2.5 inch bays and are used in desktop or
laptop computers
• PCIe NVMe M.2 format needs special connections
• M.2 slots becoming available in high end laptops

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Need for speed
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• SATA connected 2.5 inch disk drives usually have similar read/write
speeds to HDDs
• PCIe connected M.2 drives can reach much higher speeds
• Fourth generation PCIe drives take read/write speeds up even further

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Sales analysis 2020 - 2021
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• HDD sales are going down

• SSD sales are increasing
• New, specialised formats growing in popularity

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