What is effective Hard Drive speed?
A measure of how well a Hard Drive responds to typical consumer access patterns. Toshiba P300 ≈ 100%... more
What is the Hard Drive value for money rating?
A measure of real world Hard Drive performance and capacity per unit cost... more
What does MBps mean?
MBps and MB/s refer to megabytes per second which are units of data transfer speed... more
How big is 16GB?
Approximately enough space to hold 3,200 mp3 audio files... more
What is AS SSD real world copy speed?
The speed at which files can be copied from from one directory to another on the same drive... more
What is 4K random read speed?
A measure of how quickly multiple small files can be read from a device... more
What is 4K random write speed?
A measure of how quickly multiple small files can be written to a device... more
What is queue depth?
The number of simultaneous requests on a drive's request queue... more
What is incompressible data?
Data that cannot be compressed e.g. most music, video and image file formats... more
What is sequential read speed?
A measure of how quickly large files can be read from a device... more
What is sequential write speed?
A measure of how quickly large files can be written to a device... more
What’s the difference between NAND and V-NAND?
NAND and V-NAND are both types of flash memory which is a class of non-volatile memory that retains data even in the absence of an electrical current... more
What’s the difference between SATA, PCIe and NVMe?
NVMe, AHCI and IDE are transfer protocols (languages). They run on top of transfer interfaces such as PCIe or SATA (spoken, written)... more
What is 3D XPoint and how fast is it?
3D XPoint is the name given by Intel and Micron to their jointly developed, revolutionary storage technology as employed in Intel’s Optane memory... more
What’s the difference between SLC, MLC and TLC?
In terms or write performance, durability and price SLC > MLC > TLC... more
What is sustained sequential write speed?
A measure of how quickly large files can be written to a device... more