what’s the difference between Solid State Drives and Hard Drives.

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what’s the difference between Solid State Drives and Hard Drives.

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Think of the hard drive (HDD hard *disk* drive) as a rewritable CD or DVD. You can read from it and save to it, but doing so it needs to spin around like an old record player (although what is happening is closer to a cassette tape). The SSD (Solid State Drive) is like Ram memory in your computer or a thumb-drive. It doesn’t require mechanical motion like spinning disks to operate.