Solid State Drive versus

Hard Disk Drive

HW0210 Technical communication

TUTOR GROUP: SCE4 | TUTOR: CHRISTINE LEE

B I L LY | J U N X U A N | B E N J A MI N | H A N MI N G | J I A N
FANG
 Outline
O Introduction
O Literature Review
O Method & Materials
O Results
O Conclusion
 Background
O Data storage devices

O Popular in our lives

O Known as secondary storage devices

O 2 types of data storage devices

O Hard Disk Drive (HDD)

O Solid State Drive (SSD)

 Background

O HDD:
O IBM 1956
O Magnetic coating on metal platters
O Data are read/written by movements of
magnetic heads.
 Background

O SSD:
O 1950s
O Controller and NAND flash memory chips
O Data are read/written by read/write
functions
 Objective and Audience
O Objective

O Provide the statistical figures

O Compare differences between HDD and

SSD

O Manufacturers

O identify which drives will be more suitable

O educate their end users.

 Literature Review
O Highlight differences between drives

O Primary advantages of both drives

O Research gap in past researches

 Differences
O Power consumption:
O SSD uses 5% of system power
O HDD uses 10% of system power
O Power usage of SSD is half of a HDD in
both state.
 Differences
O Price of SSD is significantly higher:
O Highly complex process.
O Sophisticated flash memory

O Heat dissipation of SSD is lower:

O Uses lesser power than HDD
 Primary Advantages
O Primary advantages of SSD:
O Faster performance
O Booting up of PC
O Launching of applications

O Primary advantages of HDD:

O Higher maximum storage capacity
O Up to 4 Terabytes
 Primary Advantages
O Reasons why HDD lost in performance:
O More time spent waiting for platters to
access data

O Reasons why SSD lost in storage

capacity:
O Limitations in size of transistors and parts
in SSD
 Research Gap
O Little has shown:

O Temperature fluctuation at different

intervals

O Statistical figures of boot up and read/write

speed with a fair environment

 Method
O The aim of the experiments were to obtain
data to evaluate the performance of each
of the drives.

O Three experiments:
O Boot-up speed
O Read & Write speed
O Operating temperature
 Materials

O 13-inch Apple MacBook Pro x2

O 256GB SSD

O 500GB HDD

O Stopwatch
 Materials (Cont’d)
O Blackmagic Disk Speed
Test
O A software used to assess
storage drives’ read and
write performance.
O It obtains the drives’
performance by comparing
the time taken to write and
read large data to and from
the drive.
 Materials (Cont’d)
O iStat Menus
O A software that allow
users to monitor
detailed information of
the computer in real
time.
O It makes use of the
sensors built inside of
the computer to obtain
the hardware
information.
 Procedures
1. Boot-up speed

Power up both Note the time

MacBook and taken for each of
start the them to complete
stopwatch the process

Repeat process for another 4 times

Finally, obtain the average from the results gathered.
 Procedures (Cont’d)
2. Read & Write speed
Start
Blackmagi Finally, obtain the
c Speed average from the results
Test gathered.
Repeat process
for another 3
times

Allow it to
Note down
run for 5
the results
minutes
 Procedures (Cont’d)
3. Operating temperature

Note down the

Run iStat operating
Menus temperature of
the drive

Repeat process for another 3 times every 15 minutes

Finally, obtain the average from all the results.

 Results
Boot-up time
50
45
40
Second(s)

35 SSD
30
25 HDD
20
15
10
5
0
EXP 1 EXP 2 EXP 3 EXP 4
 Results (Cont’d)
Reading speed
600
500
400
MB/s

SSD
300
HDD
200
100
0
EXP 1 EXP 2 EXP 3 EXP 4
 Results (Cont’d)
Writing speed
450
400
350
300
SSD
MB/s

250
200 HDD
150
100
50
0
EXP 1 EXP 2 EXP 3 EXP 4
 Results (Cont’d)
Operating temperature
40
35
Temperature( °C )

30
25
SSD
20
HDD
15
10
5
0
EXP 1 EXP 2 EXP 3 EXP 4
 Final results
Result SSD HDD

Boot-up 17.2sec 42.2sec

Read 443MB/sec 95MB/sec

Write 366MB/sec 94MB/sec

Temperature 33°C 34°C

Why SSD is better than HDD?
Reason: The difference in technology.

HD SS
D D
 Conclusion……..

1. Limitation
2. Recommendation
3. Application
 Final results
Result SSD HDD

Boot-up 17.2sec 42.2sec

Read 443MB/sec 95MB/sec

Write 366MB/sec 94MB/sec

Temperature 33°C 34°C

 Limitations…
1. System…
2. Heat dissipation…

HDD/SSD
 Recommendation…
1. Uses a range of disk..
• Brand
• Capacity

2. New SSD,HDD & System

Application…
Thank you for your kind attention
&
All the best for your final exams!
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 References
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 Q&A
O What is secondary storage device?
O Why our results are different from result
on Internet?
O Should I use SSD or HDD?
O Future trend of SSD and HDD?
O Why we use Mac OS?
O Maximum capacity of SSD and HDD ?
O Maximum speed of SSD and HDD
 Q&A
O What is secondary storage device?
O external memory and auxiliary storage
O Hold information even the power is off
O Why our results are different from result
on Internet?
O The use period of laptop, HDD and SSD
O The different version
O Environment factor: number of
application, …
 Q&A
O Should I use SSD or HDD?
O If:
O storage capacity, up to 4TB
O Don’t want to spend much money
O Don’t care too much about how fast a computer
boots up or opens programs
O If:
O You are willing to pay for faster performance
O Don’t mind limited storage capacity or can work
around that.
 Q&A
O Future trend of SSD and HDD?
O SSD:
O Increase its capacity
O Decrease its price
O HDD:
O Increase it performance or improve its desity
 Q&A
O Why we use Mac OS?
O As we only find 2 identical laptop using
Mac OS
O If we can find 2 identical laptop using
Window, then we also can use Window
O The results also depend on the operating
system
 Q&A
O Maximum capacity of SSD and HDD ?
O SSD: 2 TB
O HDD: 4TB
O Maximum speed of SSD and HDD
O SSD: SATA 6 GB/s
O HDD: 10’000 rpm (200 MB/s)