HDDs are mechanical devices—with moving actuators, spinning platters, and shifting heads. And as such they’re predisposed to consume more power than an SSD … in fact, I guess you could say they were “born” this way. So in this, our second ”Counseling Session“ video, we poke a bit of fun at a really serious challenge as our friend the HDD works to keep up with his energy consumption needs.
We talk a lot about the things that differentiate solid state storage from traditional spinning platters—be it at the enterprise level or in the laptop right in front of me. Perhaps as a relief to that intense level of focus, we made a series of videos to have some fun with the performance issues in HDDs. Of course, in reality, these are real challenges. But in this short vignette, it’s all fun and games as a counselor questions an HDD about some personal problems he’s been having lately.
