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IDC PC storage benchmark study

This video presentation by IDC answers these questions: How does the performance of each storage technology compare with each other against industry benchmarks and various real-life performance settings? When and where does each technology fail to meet the performance mark? What applications are most appropriate for each technology? How should companies decide which storage technology is best for their application?

"Debates over solid state drives (SSDs) versus hard disk drives (HDDs) are numerous and, for the most part, tend to confuse the potential impact SSDs will have on real-world PC performance. To elucidate this impact and to determine where today's drive technologies excel and where they don't, IDC partnered with a third party, independent laboratory to compare and contrast different storage devices, including traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), solid state drives (SSDs), and hybrid disk drives (H-HDDs), in a single setting, under a common set of tests, and with identical computing platforms."