{"id":3380,"date":"2020-02-09T18:30:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T18:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2020-02-02T23:08:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T23:08:21","slug":"building-a-personal-computer-selecting-a-hard-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/09\/building-a-personal-computer-selecting-a-hard-disk\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a personal computer &#8211; selecting a hard disk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Any\ncomputer needs a hard disk to hold the operating system and any other\ntypes of work that you do.  As recently as a few years, ok perhaps\n10, the only question was how large of a hard disk do you need and\nthe only hard disks were mechanical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\nwere a few different types, but basically the difference was how fast\nwere the platters spinning which affects how quickly the data can be\nreturned.  For mechanical hard disk the data throughput rate was\nabout 100mb per second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nbiggest advance was the invention of the SATA SSD which is a huge\nadvance as the hard disk is just a bank of memory.  The delays due to\nspinning disks is eliminated and the throughput skyrocketed to about\n500mb per second.  This transfer rate actually approached the limits\nof the SATA interface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nmost recent breakthrough was when the NVME M.2 SSD hard disks.  The\ndifference was the change of the electroncs from the SATA to the PCI\nbus.  This resulted in another giant breakthrough to data transfers\nof from 2100mb per second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>History\nand comparison of hard disks up through NVME SSD disks. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"M.2 vs NVME: What&#039;s the difference?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fJCHx7mZEKo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Visual\ndemonstration of different disk technology in load times<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"M.2 NVME vs SSD vs SSHD vs HDD Game Loading Times\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2AYextvB9l4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any computer needs a hard disk to hold the operating system and any other types of work that you do. As recently as a few years, ok perhaps 10, the only question was how large of a hard disk do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/09\/building-a-personal-computer-selecting-a-hard-disk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[104],"tags":[108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3393,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions\/3393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}