On traditional hard drives, the magnetic regions that store data are about 10 times as large as the smallest skyrmions. (sciencenews.org)
Plus, chips bearing the new Intel Core i5 +, i7 +, and i9 + badges will support Intel's Optane memory tech, which lets you use fairly inexpensive Optane RAM to speed up traditional hard drives for faster boot times, app launches, similar to the speed boost you'd get when using an SSD instead of an HDD. (thenextweb.com)
Even the most standard SSDs are light years ahead of traditional hard drives when it comes to read / write performance. (thatvideogameblog.com)