Hard Disk Drives (also known as HDDs) are mechanical storage drives, generally designed to be low-cost high-capacity storage, with the drawback of lower speeds. HDDs are utilised in many devices, such as desktops, NAS Units and NVRs.
Capacity – HDDs have a much wider range of capacity than their newer counterpart – the SSD – ranging anywhere from 1TB to a ginormous 30TB.
Use Case – HDDs are generally designed for a specific use case, this is done by including specialised software, or tuning the hardware to better achieve a certain task. These drive specialties will include:
