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I'm just spitballing a bit in the hope of stimulating the thought process, but whenever assessing whether X is "better" then Y one really needs to get into the scientific method a bit and come up with some measurable metrics in order to make the determination, otherwise one runs the risk of making an emotional decision or getting sucked in by the advertising/Internet and hype.
I'm by no means a storage expert, but the sort of thing one might consider are things like MTBF, noise, heat, seek times, transfer times (both "burst" and "sustained,") cost per GB, spin up times, energy usage, warranty length (and terms,) etc. etc. Maybe some feature comparitors (can they be "slept," do they have a cache on board and how big, will it survive power cuts without losing integrity, etc.) And finally, one my try to give a "score" to reputation, though one might perhaps give that less weight than the more objective measures.
Sometimes when one tablulate this sort of thing and then cross compare, one starts to discern what it more or less important on the decision making process. Indeed, sometime s a ranking of the criteria emerges as one starts to consider what is most important.That "thing" I thought was really important at the outset (say) lots of storage for my money, might be tempered by (say) shorter warranty or noisier mechanism or whatever.
Of course, one always runs the risk of over-thinking it as well. |
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2-12-2019 04:53:51
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