It was relatively recently that we moved from IDE to SATA and the speed benefits that brought. Yet within a very short timespan we've gone from 1.5Gbp/s SATA through 3.0Gbp/s to the 'available on everything' SATA 6Gbp/s. Whereas not long ago the Velociraptors were considered the titans of the speed world, we quickly had Solid State Drives, and they utterly redefined what we think of as fast data transfer.



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