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Old Jul 23, 2020 | 3:01 pm
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Originally Posted by swanscn
Its 2020 this battle of SSD versus HDD is over. The next question should be SSD vs. NvMe, you will find significant improvements in performance again. Especially those devices that have adopted the NvMe protocol. And after that it will be NvMe vs SCM (storage class memory) still too expensive for even high end laptops.
HDD = Beta Tapes
SSD = VHS tapes
NvMe = DVD's

Each had their time and their place, even if their time was short. I can see a very large HDD for eternal backups of many machines, but for single it is best to continue using SSD externally (IMO).
I don't believe this is a correct characterization at all.

Beta and VHS were competitors of each others. But HDD and SSD are not exactly in such relationship. NVMe is considered a form of SSD.
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