Podcast: Hdds Performance Metrics And The Workloads They Excel At
ComputerWorld, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
We talk to Toshiba's Rainer Kaese about spinning disk performance, why HDDs are good at what they do and how hard disk drives still come out top in workloads that suit them
In this podcast, we talk to Rainer Kaese, senior manager for business development for hard disk drives (HDDs) for Toshiba Electronics Europe about the use cases most suited to HDDs.
Kaese outlines the key performance characteristics, in particular in data transfer rate and input/output (I/O) operations per second, and why that makes them most suited to sequential workloads.
He also discusses in detail how HDDs work under the hood and how they compare with solid state drives (SSD) in terms of I/O performance and endurance.