SSD Vs NORMAL MECHANIAL HARDDRIVE

[_zambrotta_]

What is the main difference between a SSD and just a normal mechanical hard drive?

 

[mcconkeymike]

Boot up times greatly decreased with SSD, application loading times reduced with SSD, files transfer rates massively better with SSD (~140mbps with traditional, ~550mbps with SSD). Even the cheapest SSD is going to make your computer more responsive.

 

[greens]

An SSD is sort of like a flash drive - no moving parts. It can read upwards of 500MB/s.
a Hard drive is sort of like a CD - a mechanical platter with data on it. It can read upwards of 50MB/s.

An SSD is around 10x faster. Windows will boot in under 10 seconds with a good SSD.

 

[mcconkeymike]

Oh there is a downside to SSDs, they do have a limited lifespan compared to traditional, though that span has increased over the years. Another plus for SSDs is no moving parts and require less power (helps laptops).

 

[greens]

550mbps? That would be the slowest SSD i'd ever seen. Try closer to 4000mbps.

 

[anti-duck]

The speed and price. An SSD (referring to a run of the mill SATA III SSD) can be up to 7x as fast as a 7200RPM HDD.

 

[_zambrotta_]

I'm building pc for video, and photo editing, and minimal CS Go, should I do one or the other or both?

 

[mcconkeymike]

550mbps? That would be the slowest SSD i'd ever seen. Try closer to 4000mbps.

I was talking about SATA 6.0 SSDs not an M.2 PCIe SSD which is a whole different story.

 

[mcconkeymike]

Ok, I meant with the capitol B as in MBps. My bad.

 

[zezuzaza]

There got 3 kind of Hard Drive
1. HDD - Hard Disk Drive = normal mechanical hard drive
2. SSHD- Solid-state hybrid drive
3. SSD - Solid State Drive

Main different between HDD is HDD got rotor inside spinning with pin write/read to disc that rotating that called RPM(rotating per minute). Higher RPM mean faster. Normal people use 7200RPM. If you drop the hard drive, the rotor might be broken but you can purchase the spare part at computer store.

SSD do not have rotor. It is same like your USB pendrive. It only use intergrated circuit or IC to store data. If you drop the solid state drive to the floor, the IC definitely broken. That electronic things broke you cant purchase its spare part unless you purchase a new one and the data cant be retrieved. Meaning it only got circuit board with contain several IC and it got no moving mechanical component.

Hope you understand this simple language roughly. Other will help you if you dont know the rest of information.

Have a nice day.
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[Jester Maroc]

There is another HUGE advantage to using an SSD over a mechanical drive if you install it in a laptop. SSDs are a lot more rugged and can easily withstand the average laptop users' handling habits.

Mechanical drives are prone to fail when they are subjected to lots of vibration and impacts that are normally associated with laptops since these devices are intended to be mobile. The average user generally do not know how to monitor the health of their drives and only notice something is wrong when their files are inaccessible or their laptop starts to slow down down.

Often this is too late and data can be lost and if it wasn't backed up, unrecoverable. For laptops SSDs are definitely a safer medium than HDDs.