Originally Posted by sniper8752 ok, i hope this is not a stupet
question, but hard drives and ssd's are the same thing, right?
As Dave said, they both store data and can be accessed via SATA
connections, but the similarity ends there. Solid State Drives
(SSDs) actually have much more in common with RAM than with hard
disk drives. Hard Disk Drives are mechanical components that
work rather like record players. The disks spin and a magnetic
head adjusts to read or write to different sectors on the disc
surface. SSDs, on the other hand, electronically access and
modify NAND flash memory chips attached to a Printed Circuit
Board (PCB) via a specialized microprocessor called a
controller. SSDs are more complex as a result of all this
advanced technology, typically have a lower life expectancy than
hard drives (although this varies in proportion to the type and
amount of NAND flash memory they contain and the wear-leveling
algorithms used by the controller), and cost significantly more,
but they are also able to op