Comparing IO/s for SSDs and HDDs for Video Servers

Hard Disk drives so far more economical solution - at least for most long-form content

By Jean Jacques Maleval | July 14, 2015 at 3:06 pm

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Comparing IO/s for SSDs and HDDs
For video server devices with content caching just ahead of playout, an HDD will provide a suitable real-time performance, assuming it was selected properly and designed for those activities. SSDs can provide improvements (as in VOD systems), but the HDD is, so far, a more economical solution – at least for most long-form content.