An HDD or Hard Disk Drive stores data on a rotating platter. It is also fitted with a read/write head that floats above it which reads and writes the data. The speed of rotation directly ...

A computer with a built-in solid-state drive (SSD) will give you faster startup speeds, slicker data-writing when copying files, and a snappier process for opening and swapping between programs, ...

By Brad Coleta December 18, 2018 So you’re building your own PC, and you’re wondering whether to use the traditional hard drive or this new and improved solution: a solid-state drive (SSD).

Disk-based hard drives have actual spinning metal disks which house your data in a series of magnetic bits. To access your data, disk drives have to literally physically “spin up”; the parts of the ...

Hard drives have been manufactured for decades now, and coming across a 1TB or 2TB hard drive is ridiculously easy for cheap prices. On the other hand, an SSD will fetch a much higher price.

DRAMeXchange observes that this means that right now, a 128GB SSD costs almost exactly the same as a 500GB hard disk – there will be less than a $3 price difference between these drives in 2016.

SATA 3, the latest iteration, has been around since 2009, and it easily connects most hard drives and optical drives like Blu-ray players to a motherboard using a standard SATA cable, the very ...

SSD, or Solid-State Drives, are storage devices just like hard drives (HDD), but the key difference, at least in terms of gaming, is that they generally offer better performance. Because of how ...