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.
Can confirm, current high end laptop has taken a beating into walls doors and floors, minor body damage with scraped plastic is the only problem. Hardware is surprisingly resilient
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.
Can confirm, current high end laptop has taken a beating into walls doors and floors, minor body damage with scraped plastic is the only problem. Hardware is surprisingly resilient