ssds vs hdds. multi-tasking!!?

[ar09]

i like ssds. they are fast. but there is one thing that is making me wonder. are hardrives capable of doing multi-tasking more than ssds? i mean, how many things at the same time can you do on a hdd and on a ssd? anyone?

 

[Computurd]

oh lord the ssd will absolutely kill the hdd at multitasking. anything. there are guys oading 350 instances of firefox in under 20 secs. to make showoff films. the sheer amount of speed makes multitasking a non-issue.

 

[MooCow]

I can do a virus scan of the entire SSD and nothing pauses or hiccups while using other applications.

 

[MrGuvernment]

SSD wins hands down due to how fast it can load items.

think of a mechanical HD having what,, 8-12ms seek times, vs an SSD that has... .0 something...

 

[jiminator]

hard drives suck at multitasking. just try unzipping 4 or 5 files at the same time. It totally chokes because it has to zip around the drive to access data. SSDs will not show any speed degradation.