NAND memory also provides a significant increase in speed
over mechanical hard drives, as the time wasted spinning up and seeking is removed from the equation.
Not exact matches
Also, I have
driven my car
over 10,000 miles in three months and have had no
mechanical, or any defects despite
hard driving conditions in the mountainous regions of the desert Southwest and heavy traffic of Phoenix and Los Angeles.
On a
mechanical hard drive, defragmenting is beneficial because the
drive's head has to move
over the magnetic platter to read the data.
Mechanical hard drives use spinning platters to store data and read data with an arm that travels
over the platter.
That's basically the limit for
mechanical drives, and even internal
hard disks running
over a SATA connection rarely break 150MBps or so.