For decades, computer storage has been making huge strides in maximum capacities, but performance was falling far off the pace set by CPUs and GPUs. That all changed when flash-based solid-state storage (SSDs) hit the mainstream consumer market back in 2007. Those early drives were insanely expensive, and early adopters found that performance often degraded drastically over time, but they were the foot in the door.
By moving from the mechanical world of hard drives to …read more
