Activity Answer Sheet

M.03.A.02.Y – Replacing a Hard Drive

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Photograph: Boot Screen
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Photograph: HDD #1
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Photograph: HDD #2
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Stretch Question S.1

Type your answer beneath the line below. Cite your source(s) in APA format. Citations for Stretch Questions
may come from any source.

The essay below compares mechanical hard drives, SSDs, and NVMe storage.

HDD, or traditional spinning hard disk drives, is an electro-mechanical data storage device that has been in use
for over 50 years. It uses magnetic storage to store and retrieve digital information on one or more rapidly rotat-
ing disks coated with magnetic material. These hard disk drives rely on spinning disks, or platters, to read and
write data. However, due to their mechanical nature, they are slower and cheaper compared to SSDs.

SSD, which stands for Solid State Drive, is named so because it has no moving parts, unlike traditional hard
drives. This absence of moving and spinning parts means that SSDs experience less wear and tear, resulting in
significantly better performance. SSDs are approximately 5 times faster than normal HDDs. While SSDs are
more expensive, costing around 1.5 times more than HDDs, their performance benefits make them a popular
choice for many users.

NVMe, or Non-Volatile Memory Express, is a new protocol designed for accessing high-speed storage media.
It offers several advantages compared to legacy protocols and is defined to efficiently support the needs of en-
terprise and client systems that utilize PCI Express solid-state drives. NVMe is particularly useful for larger file
transfers due to its high-speed capabilities.

In the below graph, we can see the storage performance of those drives.

NVMe, SATA SSD, and SATA HDD are different types of storage drives. NVMe offers the fastest perfor-
mance, followed by SATA SSD, and then SATA HDD.

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Overview of NVMe, SATA SSD, and SATA HDD
"Let's start by looking at NVMe SSDs, SATA SSDs, and SATA HDDs. Each type of storage has its own unique
characteristics, meeting different user needs and preferences. After that, we will compare them individually."
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NVMe SSD SATA SSD HDD

PCIe 4.0 - Up to 7,500

MB/s
Speed Up to 550MB/s Up to 160 MB/s
PCIe 5.0 - Up to
14,000 MB/s

 average  cost efficient

 best read/write price for per GB
performance acceptable
overall perfor-  Hot swap-
mance pable
Characteristics  comes in M.2
for mainstream  2.5”  predictable
usage or U.2 drives are lifespan and
data center hot swap- cost friendly
pable to replace

 slower
than
 performance NVMe  moving com-
comes at a cost SSDs ponents; sus-
per GB ceptible to
 not as
 M.2 not hot dense as damage
Disadvantages swappable HDDs  requires
 U.2 hot swap-  SATA maintenance
pable expen- SSDs are and care to
sive reserved becoming extract its
for data centers outdated benefits
in con-
sumer use

For applications that Used for fast stor- Used for cold stor-
access data often like age alternative to age data. Often for
Purpose OS, gaming, and HDD but over- backup data due to
dataset-intensive shadowed by low cost large capac-
workloads. NVMe SSDs. ity drives.