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Speed of storage media

Everyone knows that storage media used to be slower and had less capacity. But how fast are which storage media exactly? The following table gives answers (sorted from fast to slow).

... By Markus Fleschutz 🕓 May 26, 2018

• Read*: average read throughput (non-compressible data) of a typical device.
• Write*: average write throughput (non-compressible data) of a typical device.
• Access*: average read access time of a typical device