Finally, after considering all of those other choices, you should consider your hard drive. The reason for this being last is because if you do your shopping right, this should be the least used of all the other options. However, this is usually the option where companies make a lot of money on you as a user because it is easy for them to sell this as an upgrade.
What are the differences in hard drives?
This is the main question you will ask when you start having sales reps try to sell you a SATA or HDD or SSD. The newest trend is to get SSD's. Quite honestly, these are the safest options as normal hard drives are fast spinning units that are almost always, literally, nano-meters away from losing all of your data. Of course, that being said, this rarely happens. Most people have great success with HDD's or SATA's and never look back. SSD's, on the other hand, are solid state drives that are stable and not spinning machines of death, this means that they won't suddenly lose all your data, but in so doing, it sacrifices hard drive space. That is why if you get a solid state drive in your laptop it will usually come in 128gb or 256gb, which means most of your data will need to be stored on a normal spinning hard drive, and makes me wonder why you even went to all the trouble to get an SSD in the first place.
What one should you buy?
If you are having issues with speed, hard drives are not the places to look to take care of them. If you go in to the store, however, this is the first thing they will try to sell you as an upgrade in performance, and the truth is that it ssd's are faster, but unless you have a top of the line computer, you're hard drive will never bottleneck enough to really slow down your performance. This is why I say that unless you want your computer for top level games, your hard drive type doesn't really matter. Just get the one that has enough space for your liking.
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What are the differences in hard drives?
This is the main question you will ask when you start having sales reps try to sell you a SATA or HDD or SSD. The newest trend is to get SSD's. Quite honestly, these are the safest options as normal hard drives are fast spinning units that are almost always, literally, nano-meters away from losing all of your data. Of course, that being said, this rarely happens. Most people have great success with HDD's or SATA's and never look back. SSD's, on the other hand, are solid state drives that are stable and not spinning machines of death, this means that they won't suddenly lose all your data, but in so doing, it sacrifices hard drive space. That is why if you get a solid state drive in your laptop it will usually come in 128gb or 256gb, which means most of your data will need to be stored on a normal spinning hard drive, and makes me wonder why you even went to all the trouble to get an SSD in the first place.
What one should you buy?
If you are having issues with speed, hard drives are not the places to look to take care of them. If you go in to the store, however, this is the first thing they will try to sell you as an upgrade in performance, and the truth is that it ssd's are faster, but unless you have a top of the line computer, you're hard drive will never bottleneck enough to really slow down your performance. This is why I say that unless you want your computer for top level games, your hard drive type doesn't really matter. Just get the one that has enough space for your liking.
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