Why are they putting "processors" on hard drives?
- by Celeritas
What does it mean when they have a processor on the hard drive, how does it work, and what benfit does it have? I don't understand - the CPU is the processor and the hard drive transfers it's contents to RAM. Do have additional processors, preprocess the data some how?
Here's some examples
Western Digital WD Black WD1002FAEX 1TB "Dual processor speed"
NETGEAR ReadyNAS 312 2-Bay Diskless Network Attached Storage "Dual-core Intel 2.1GHz processor and 2GB on-board memory"
and routers now have processors too, why's that nescecary? I guess it sort of makes sense - some logic needs to happen for the packets to be read in to know which ports to send them out on, but why did old routers not need them?
Example or wireless router with processor: "Dual-core processor"