The Difference Between HDD and SSD!!
As I was Sitting in IT today we were revising some work from last year and then we came upon Hard drives and Solid State Drives, I have since then Compiled most of the differences that I recall and then some extra info that I found on the Internet:
| Solid State Drive | Hard Drive |
|---|---|
| Electronic | Mechanical |
| No Moving Parts | Has Moving Parts |
| uses less Power than a Hard Drive | uses more Power than a SSD |
| Way More Expensive | Less expensive |
| Much Faster than a Hard Drive | Slower than a SSD |
| Storage Capacity is Generally smaller | Storage is a bit Larger |
| Little Time to Boot | Substantially longer to Boot |
| Write speeds are WAY faster | Slow compared to SSD |
| A magnet can not effect the SSD | Magnets can lead to lost Data |
A Picture of an SSD:
A Picture of a Hard Drive:
WHY WOULD YOU CHOOSE AN SSD?
- If you are willing to pay for performance then this would be the perfect choice for you!!
- If you don't mind having limited storage space then this is for sure a good option!
WHY WOULD YOU CHOOSE A HARD DRIVE?
- If you want more Storage Space
- If you are limited on Funds
- If you Don't really care to much for booting speeds or how fast something opens
When I was peaking about an HDD having 'Moving Parts', it actually does, its kinda like a pen that then writes on the ribbon to store the data there, whereas a SSD uses a lot of Different little chips to store the Data. The process which an SSD uses is called EEPROM:
EEPROM stands for electrically erasable programmable read-only memory and is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers and other electronic devices to store relatively small amounts of data but allowing individual bytes to be erased and reprogrammed.
(non-volatile means that as soon as the computer is shut down... the data is stored in STORAGE, if it was volatile the every time you would shut the computer off... the Data will be erased from the Memory or RAM)
Lets Just say that because I actually remembered most of this stuff, I would probably remember it in the test, hopefully!!! XD XD XD
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I need to get another hd for my computer so I'll go with the HDD thanks to your info from this post!
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