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What is a Solid State Drive (SSD)? Comparing HDD vs SSD, which one is better and has the faster data retrieval speed?
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SSD or a Solid State Drive is a storage device that is normally located inside the body of a Laptop PC or a Desktop PC. Enterprise Solid State Drives can be found in the servers and workstation computers. In terms of functionality, SSD plays the same role as the classic hard drive (HDD). They both are used to store data for long term retrieval. SSDs are fast because of flash memory technology that is used in them. SSDs are different from HDDs in that they don't have the spinning discs that spins and have no movable part that need to...
What is a Hard Disk Drive HDD?
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A hard disk drive (HDD) or hard drive is normally located inside the computer body. It's a non-volatile data storage device where normally Operating System (OS) and data is stored by the user. This stored data can be retrieved anytime whenever user want to retrieve it. Hard Drive is normally available in many different capacities ranging from 40GB up to 16TB. A particular HDD has various parts as shown in the image below.