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Storage Technology

HDD   (hard disk drive)
  • large (10TB), cheap $/B, high power consumption
  • R/W: slow (ms), latency, block xfer
  • reliability via redundancy (RAID)
SSD   (solid state drive)
  • medium (500GB), moderate $/B, low power consumption
  • R: fast (µs), byte/page xfer; W: mod (100µs), block erase
  • reliability: limited block erasures
RAM   (random access memory)
  • small (10GB), high $/B, low power consumption, volatile
  • R/W: fast (ns), byte xfer