The bigger question is how much you really need. A 1TB hard drive stores eight times as much as a 128GB SSD, and four times as much as a 256GB SSD. A laptop might come with a 128GB or 256GB SSD instead of a 1TB or 2TB hard drive. Of course, SSDs mean that most people have to make do with much less storage space. If you can afford an SSD, it’s the way to go. ![]() ![]() However, every time Flash memory prices fall, SSDs become cheaper and more people are willing to pay the price difference. That’s why the changeover has already taken more than two decades. SSD storage costs much more than HDD storage and the ratio used to be much higher. The drawback is, and always has been, the price. When a program fetches data from an SSD, it doesn’t have to wait: it’s almost instantly available. ![]() When a program needs data from the hard drive, it has to wait until the hard drive spins up, which causes a slight delay. In laptops, the hard drive is not kept spinning all the time, so as to save power and provide longer battery life. SSDs make actions such as loading and saving programs and files much snappier.
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