what’s the difference between Solid State Drives and Hard Drives.
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Traditional Hard Drives use spinning disks covered in magnetic material (rust) to store information. They are mechanical devices and are relatively slow due to the nature of their physically moving parts. You have to wait for the hammer to move back and forth over the spinning disk to read and write information.
SSDs store information electronically. The Circuit boards have a series of electronic cells that can each contain information. SSDs are much much faster than Spinning Hard drives because of the nature of how they operate. There’s no moving parts, so there is no delay in reading and writing information.
SSDs are very fast but cost more per GB, and are generally very small. They are ideal for laptops, and using them in PCs considerably improves performance.
While HDDs are slower but cost a lot less per GB, and are fairly large and heavy by comparison to an SSD. Traditional Spinning disks are ideal for long term storage of files, movies, pictures etc that need a lot of space but don’t need a lot of performance
But in time the cost of an SSD will continue to go down where they will eventually replace HDDs entirely.
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