In addition to solid and mechanical hard drives can also be used

Today Xiao Bian responded to comments in the comments, saw a small partner for help, SSD is now wise to start, and the difference between mechanical hard disk is not great? Xiao Bian thinks it is necessary to give everyone more talk about this matter. After all, there is a rise in the word and no one is willing to spend more money.

First of all, answer the question of the little partner, mechanical hard disk performance and SSD performance without any comparable, the most important response time, continuous read and write capabilities, 4K file read and write capabilities, solid state hard drives are not mechanical hard drives can be compared, the gap is very huge. Even if the former uses the i5 and the latter uses the i7, you will find the former to be much faster.

Let me briefly say that the conclusion is that SSDs will inevitably continue to rise. Starting in early 2017, Xiao Bian continues to emphasize that there is no hope of lowering prices during the year. The latest news in the third quarter is that the price hike of solid-state hard drives may continue. There will be no downward momentum until the first half of next year. As the reason is very complicated, Xiao Bian said little, according to the current In the circumstances, individuals are expected to be able to ease the trend of price increase until this time next year. It is only possible for the price to stabilize or even begin to decline in the fourth quarter! So if there is an urgent need, then without any hesitation, buy it. If the budget is tight, Xiao Bian also gives a few ideas for small friends to refer to.

A mixed hard disk

Hybrid hard disk simply means that a certain amount of capacity (8GB) of solid-state flash memory particles is added on the basis of a mechanical hard disk, and a special read-write mechanism caches data read and write operations to achieve the purpose of enhancing performance. For example, when playing a game, it will appear very quickly when read in large numbers, especially when reading repeatedly, and the speed will be more pronounced (the effect of caching).

Specifically, the performance of this hybrid drive is almost the same as that of the SSD when it is read. The most intuitive performance is to boot into the system. You will find that there is no difference between the two. However, when writing a file, the hybrid hard disk is "deformed," and the writing speed is slow to a dog, which is almost an ordinary mechanical hard disk.

Of course, the basic price of hybrid hard drives is also lower than that of SSDs, which is a compromise for those with tight budgets.

Second, Intel fast storage technology

Intel's rapid storage technology is a very good performance acceleration application, not too old motherboard chipsets can support (Intel platform Oh). Simply put, as long as there is a small-capacity 64-gigabyte SSD (even if used), it can speed up the computer and let the mechanical drive have similar performance to the SSD. In fact, the principle of this technology and hybrid hard disk is similar, but the means of realization is different, the specific use of the method can refer to Xiaobian push over the "Accelerated mechanical hard drive to speed up! ".

In addition, starting from the 200 series chipset, this Intel fast storage technology has been upgraded to Audeng’s "dedicated mode", using only the 200 series chipsets and the 7th generation Core processors. Improve disk performance and even positively compare SSDs! Of course, the overall cost is still not low.

Third, PrimoCache software

If you say that the first two are all about spending a lot of money, then Xiaobian also has a method to spend less, but this method is the worst performance in comparison, it can only be said to be an auxiliary means Bale. "Follow Xiaobian learn to do iron cock mechanical hard disk second change SSD! "The use of memory as a cache is described in detail, and the read and write operations of the auxiliary hard disk are assisted. It should be noted that although this method has the least overhead, there are also prerequisites. If the memory is too small, do not consider...

To sum up, the best solution is naturally not bad money, so buy it. However, if the budget is tight or the time is not right, the three solutions provided by Xiao Bian are also worth considering. At present, Xiao Bian is using method 2 to stick to it. Its performance is acceptable and its cost is relatively low. It is a good compromise solution (because there is an old hard disk for service, so I do not want to change the mix).