Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 29 days agoMy brothers Chuwi laptop had major problems. Now he got a wal-mart gift card for the price he paid for the Chuwi. He is eyeing an HP laptop with 256gb ssd. Is that the same as a regular harddrive?message-squaremessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up117arrow-down1message-squareMy brothers Chuwi laptop had major problems. Now he got a wal-mart gift card for the price he paid for the Chuwi. He is eyeing an HP laptop with 256gb ssd. Is that the same as a regular harddrive?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 29 days agomessage-square24fedilinkfile-text
Can he download stuff like a regular hard drive where you get 256gb of space or is it like a cloud service or something?
minus-squaremipadaitu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·28 days agoA hard disk uses spinning magnetic disks to store data. An SSD uses flash memory to store data. Since it doesn’t have moving parts, it can access the data faster and with fewer parts. At current prices an SSD is more expensive for the same size storage, but most people don’t need 10TB on their laptop.
minus-squareneidu3@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-228 days agoNervously glancing over at the stack of Exos 10TB drives I have as leftovers after upgrading a storage cluster to use 18TB drives
minus-squareEm Adespoton@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·28 days agoInterestingly, my SSDs tend to fail due to reaching their maximum writes (takes roughly 15 years). My HDDs fail due to shock or overheating. Tend to last roughly 9 years.
minus-squareSolOrion@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·28 days agoThe lack of moving parts also makes SSDs drastically more drop resistant, and just generally less likely to die on you randomly. Not that they can’t, it’s just less common.
A hard disk uses spinning magnetic disks to store data.
An SSD uses flash memory to store data.
Since it doesn’t have moving parts, it can access the data faster and with fewer parts.
At current prices an SSD is more expensive for the same size storage, but most people don’t need 10TB on their laptop.
Nervously glancing over at the stack of Exos 10TB drives I have as leftovers after upgrading a storage cluster to use 18TB drives
Interestingly, my SSDs tend to fail due to reaching their maximum writes (takes roughly 15 years).
My HDDs fail due to shock or overheating. Tend to last roughly 9 years.
The lack of moving parts also makes SSDs drastically more drop resistant, and just generally less likely to die on you randomly. Not that they can’t, it’s just less common.