How Would You Explain an SSD to Your Mother?

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Mom, I recommend a SSD as they are much faster and less likely to lose the precious data as I know you have many memories stored on your computer. I know how heart broken you would be if you were to lose any of these pictures and videos so going with the SSD is best.
 
Finally,good to see a GLOBAL contest.

+1 Toms, +1 Samsung

Though, i don't see anyway i can make my mom understand 🙁
 
Alright mom, think of a normal hard drive as an average race horse. Its big, fast, and it will eventually cross the finish line. Now consider a "solid state drive". A solid state drive (or SSD for short) is more or less a race horse that is strung out on crystal meth, has laser beams for eyes, is half T-rex, and is driven by the incredible hulk. They are fast as hell and awesome. These are basically the best things since frozen waffles and internet porn (I don't recommend combining the two (worst bar-mitzvah ever)).

Now lets stop discussing the intricacies of computing and start discussing why you are not making me a samitch right now.
 
So easy a mom can understand

A regular hard drive didn't finish high school and is now a greeter at Walmart.

An SSD drive went to collage and is now a doctor......now your mom wants an SSD drive
 
I think that most older people would relate to the record player analogy best.. I would think it would be easy for them to understand that the faster the record player spins the faster that the data can be read... I would also explain that the fastest spinning drives only spin at 7,200 RPM but SSD drives are so fast it would be like a record player spinning at 1,000,000 RPM..
 
[citation][nom]ta152h[/nom]It's kind of pathetic that most people here think their mother is almost retarded and they have to make "homemaker" analogies for them to understand. My mother earned two master degrees; more than I have. Also keep in mind that, for males, slightly over half your DNA came from her. So if she's so stupid, what does that make you? If you can't explain why an SSD makes a difference, that's probably your own communication skills failing, or her disinterest in something she considers unimportant. A cooking analogy reinforces the probability of the first being likely. The second is mitigated by keeping it quick and simple, again pointing to a failure to communicate by not understanding your audience.[/citation]

My mother isn't retarded and I'm sure none of yours are either. People come to THG are most likely techies like I am and can explain in technical terms between a SSD and HDD, but that's our own language outsiders may not understand.
Using "homemaker" analogies is a simple way to your point across to make a mother understand what a SSD is by using items she's familiar with.
If you were to tell your dad what's a SSD, the simple method is to use car analogies.
P.S. Your comment is the most retarded I've ever read and not only that, let's see how well you explain a SSD to your mother.
 
They should have made it all black and used a 2001 monkey scene with it.
 
For the males that arn't tech savvy.

Think of the normal hard drive as a ford escort.

Ok now think of the ssd as a ford Shelby.

For the femals.

Think of the normal hard drive as a hand wash rack.

Now think of the ssd as a washer.

 
My children would have no trouble explaining to their mom about what an SSD is. Their mom was a software engineer for Micropolis (remember them) for many years, and then worked on contract to Seagate porting HDD firmware to a new processor. Not all moms stay home and bake cookies.
 
A hard drive is basically metal CD's. An SSD is a bunch of superfast SD cards. The second is faster.
 
Hey Mom, you know how much you love that Samsung HDTV you have? Now we can have some of that sleek styling, reliability, and performance, in our computer! Simply by adding one of Samsung's new 830 SSD's. Everything we do will be so much faster, we won't have time to use the TV anymore!
 
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