>>>>For day2day probably the SSD - having no head to throw around reading accounts for a lot.
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>>>My only complaint is the naming: ATM vs SSD
>>What about "CRT tube" ?
Cathode Ray Tube tube...

>At least it IS a tube. SSD is not a disk... and in case they meant "drive"... nope, I'm not buying that explanation. Unless they advertise it as a "no wheel drive", which would be at least funny.

Although SSDs aren't disc in terms of physical implementation, but in a virtual sense they are (at least at BIOS level they behave as such). And considering how often for harddisks the BIOS geometry (i.e. cylinders, heads, sectors) often doesn't match the actual physical implementation... When I used to muck around on VM/CMS, I'd used virtual printers, cardpunch, discpack, etc... Those virtual devices weren't always physically manifested in the same manner as described in the virtual sense (e.g. the virtual punchcards weren't actual cards -- likely files stored on a disc somewhere).