Dubai:
There are different types of memories and new technologies that are coming up but a similar evolution is also happening from a hard drive perspective as well.
The capacity of SSD is growing but it’s not much in comparison to that of the hard drive. Within the last four years, capacities have grown at least six times from 1TB to 6TB.
“From a SSD perspective they have not even grown three to four times than the volume which was available. So there is a constraint from the SSD side when it comes to the amount of storage space they can give consumers or the price which they can offer,” said Khwaja Saifuddin, senior sales director for Middle East, Africa and India at Western Digital.
“We had perpendicular recording and single magnetic recording (SMR), the next could be the heat assisted magnetic recording and these changes and evolutions in technology could be the key reasons why within the same space we could see hard drives with even higher capacities and those that offer greater performance,” he said.
He said that due to the cell degeneration on SSDs one never knows what will happen. Once data is lost from a SSD it is unrecoverable, while with a hard drive, data is recoverable in case of an accident where the hard drive is not completely damaged.
“A SSD failure is permanent vs. a hard drive where data can be recovered depending on the amount of damage caused,” he said.
