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<blockquote data-quote="Fred Kingston" data-source="post: 483657" data-attributes="member: 10742"><p>An SSD is a SolidStateDrive... no moving parts... a regular hard disk spins... think of it as an old time record player with an arm... it takes time for the arm to move from one position/cut to another... by comparison, the SSD is magnitudes faster... They're usually used to hold the Operating system because programs frequently make calls to the OS to do things... so using the faster drive to host the OS generally speeds up the system's over-all performance. You'll notice that SSD drives are more expensive than regular rotating disks... although, their prices have been coming down markedly as they become more popular...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fred Kingston, post: 483657, member: 10742"] An SSD is a SolidStateDrive... no moving parts... a regular hard disk spins... think of it as an old time record player with an arm... it takes time for the arm to move from one position/cut to another... by comparison, the SSD is magnitudes faster... They're usually used to hold the Operating system because programs frequently make calls to the OS to do things... so using the faster drive to host the OS generally speeds up the system's over-all performance. You'll notice that SSD drives are more expensive than regular rotating disks... although, their prices have been coming down markedly as they become more popular... [/QUOTE]
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