The Visual Arts Division requires new storage devices for manipulating and storing large multimedia files. Which type of hard drive should you procure for optimal performance?
Hybrid
SSD
HDD
None of these
SSDs are known for their high-speed data transfer capabilities, which is essential for handling large multimedia files efficiently. Conversely, HDDs are slower and more suited to bulk storage rather than speed, while hybrid drives offer a compromise between speed and cost, which may not be the priority for performance-intensive tasks.
In computing, a hybrid drive (solid state hybrid drive – SSHD) is a logical or physical storage device that combines a faster storage medium such as solid-state drive (SSD) with a higher-capacity hard disk drive (HDD). The intent is adding some of the speed of SSDs to the cost-effective storage capacity of traditional HDDs. The purpose of the SSD in a hybrid drive is to act as a cache for the data stored on the HDD, improving the overall performance by keeping copies of the most frequently used data on the faster SSD drive. There are two main configurations for implementing hybrid drives: dual-drive hybrid systems and solid-state hybrid drives. In dual-drive hybrid systems, physically separate SSD and HDD devices are installed in the same computer, having the data placement optimization performed either manually by the end user, or automatically by the operating system through the creation of a "hybrid" logical device. In solid-state hybrid drives, SSD and HDD functionalities are built into a single piece of hardware, where data placement optimization is performed either entirely by the device (self-optimized mode), or through placement "hints" supplied by the operating system (host-hinted mode).
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