Battle of the storage acronyms: SSD vs HDD vs hybrid
If you have bought, or considered buying, new computer equipment in the last few years you will have come across the offering of SSD drives for storage. A high proportion of new computers and servers still use the time-tested hardware of a standard hard disk drive (HDD), but it is increasingly common to find new computer supplied with SSDs, or with a combination of SSD and HDD. So what is the difference? How do the different technologies affect cost? And…