SSD vs HDD

[jesse5648]

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mga boss, mangayu nasad kos inyung bulawanong tambag

unsa may advantage ug disadvantages sa SSD ug sa HDD??

for storage purposes aware ko HDD is okey

pero for performance bases like kanang pag boot ug pag load sa imung PC, does SSD performance matters?? ana man sila gud same2 ra ang rpm sa SSD ug sa HDD

galibog jud ko,

im about to finalize my rig man gud, naa nakay 1tb nga HDD im confuse if mo palit paba kaha kog SSD??

di man sad ko hilig mag Download2 pod

hinaot nga inyung mahopay ang nagka gubot kong alimpatakan

[Nefarian]

Ako rani copy-paste brader hehe. Ug dili ka into download games, videos then adto nalang sa SSD for fast access of data.

Advantages/Disadvantages
Both SSDs and HDDs do the same job: They boot your system, store your applications, and store your personal files. But each type of storage has its own unique feature set. The question is what's the difference, and why would a user get one over the other? We break it down:

Price: To put it bluntly, SSDs are frakking expensive in terms of dollar per GB. For the same capacity and form factor 1TB internal 2.5-inch drive, you'll be paying about $100 for a HDD, but as of this writing, you'll be paying a whopping $600 for an SSD. That translates into ten-cents-per-GB for the HDD and 60 cents per GB for the SSD. Other capacities are slightly more affordable (250 to 256GB: $170 SSD, $60 HDD), but you get the idea. Since HDDs are older, more established technologies, they will remain to be less expensive for the near future. Those extra hundreds may push your system price over budget.

Maximum and Common Capacity: As seen above, SSD units top out at 1TB, but those are still very rare and expensive. You're more likely to find 128GB to 500GB units as primary drives in systems. You'd be hard pressed to find a 128GB HDD in a PC these days, as 250 or even 500GB is considered a "base" system in 2012. Multimedia users will require even more, with 1TB to 4TB drives as common in high-end systems. Basically, the more storage capacity, the more stuff (photos, music, videos, etc) you can hold on your PC. While the (Internet) cloud may be a good place to share these files between your phone, tablet, and PC, local storage is less expensive, and you only have to buy it once.

Speed: This is where SSDs shine. A SSD-equipped PC will boot in seconds, certainly under a minute. A hard drive requires time to speed up to operating specs, and will continue to be slower than a SSD during normal operation. A PC or Mac with an SSD boots faster, launches apps faster, and has higher overall performance. Witness the higher PCMark scores on laptops and desktops with SSD drives, plus the much higher scores and transfer times for external SSDs vs. HDDs. Whether it's for fun, school, or business, the extra speed may be the difference between finishing on time or failing.

Fragmentation: Because of their rotary-like recording surfaces, HDD surfaces work best with larger files that are laid down in contiguous blocks. That way, the drive head can start and end its read in one continuous motion. When hard drives start to fill up, large files can become scattered around the disk platter, which is otherwise known as fragmentation. While read/write algorithms have improved where the effect in minimized, the fact of the matter is that HDDs can become fragmented, while SSDs don't care where the data is stored on its chips, since there's no physical read head. SSDs are inherently faster.

Durability: An SSD has no moving parts, so it is more likely to keep your data safe in the event that you drop your laptop bag or your system is shaken about by an earthquake while it's operating. Most hard drives park their read/write heads when the system is off, but they are flying over the drive platter at hundreds of miles an hour when they are in operation. Besides, even parking brakes have limits. If you're rough on your equipment, a SSD is recommended.
Availability: Simply put, hard drives are more plentiful. Look at the product lists from Western Digital, Toshiba, Seagate, Samsung, and Hitachi, and you'll see many more HDD model numbers than SSDs. For PCs and Macs, HDDs won't be going away, at least for the next couple of years. You'll also see many more HDD choices than SSDs from different manufacturers for the same capacities. SSD model lines are growing in number, but HDDs are still the majority for storage devices in PCs.

Form Factors: Because HDDs rely on spinning platters, there is a limit to how small they can be manufactured. There was an initiative to make smaller 1.8-inch spinning hard drives, but that's stalled at about 320GB, since the MP3 player and smartphone manufacturers have settled on flash memory for their primary storage. SSDs have no such limitation, so they can continue to shrink as time goes on. SSDs are available in 2.5-inch laptop drive sized boxes, but that's only for convenience, as stated above. As laptops become slimmer and tablets take over as primary web surfing platforms, you'll start to see the adoption of SSDs skyrocket.
Noise: Even the quietest HDD will emit a bit of noise when it is in use from the drive spinning or the read arm moving back and forth, particularly if it's in a system that's been banged about or in an all-metal system where it's been shoddily installed. Faster hard drives will make more noise than slower ones. SSDs make virtually no noise at all, since they're non-mechanical.

Overall: HDDs win on price, capacity, and availability. SSDs work best if speed, ruggedness, form factor, noise, or fragmentation (technically part of speed) are important factors to you. If it weren't for the price and capacity issues, SSDs would be the winner hands down.

As far as longevity goes, while it is true that SSDs wear out over time (each cell in a flash memory bank has a limited number of times it can be written and erased), thanks to TRIM technology built into SSDs that dynamically optimizes these read/write cycles, you're more likely to discard the system for obsolescence before you start running into read/write errors. The possible exception are high-end multimedia users like video editors who read and write data constantly, but those users will need the larger capacities of hard drives anyway. Hard drives will eventually wear out from constant use as well, since they use physical recording methods. Longevity is a wash when it's separated from travel and ruggedness concerns.

[werty]

capacity and gamay kwarta HDD
speed and daghan kwarta SSD

[jesse5648]

toara, thanks sa article,, nalamdagan na gyud tawn ko hehehe

now for my follow up question,, im planning to get 128gb lang kay akong mga downloads ibutang nlng nakos HDD, pwede raman ni no??

HDD for those big files like movies, music, etc..

then for the apps sa SSD so enough na ang 128gb right?? unsa kaya ang top nga SSD and pilay price range nya sa market??

im seeing some with extreme. extreme 2 SSD, , wa kaayu ko kasabot sa ilang difference T_T

[i.draw.fast]

Ok rana 128gb ssd. Daghan naka ma-install programs ana.

Ako set up kay
128gb ssd - os and programs
1tb - data files and downloads

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Crucial m500 boss murag 4.9k nalang ang 128gb sa nutech.

Ingna cash price. Hatagan ka nila ug dakong discount.

[butitoy]

toara, thanks sa article,, nalamdagan na gyud tawn ko hehehe

now for my follow up question,, im planning to get 128gb lang kay akong mga downloads ibutang nlng nakos HDD, pwede raman ni no??

HDD for those big files like movies, music, etc..

then for the apps sa SSD so enough na ang 128gb right?? unsa kaya ang top nga SSD and pilay price range nya sa market??

im seeing some with extreme. extreme 2 SSD, , wa kaayu ko kasabot sa ilang difference T_T

use windows 7

set ur profile to another HDD

[erwin_rommel]

nindot ang ssd.. kusog kaayo mo boot imo machine. ang disadvantage lang kay mo unstable after many months. 6 out of 7 cad machines sa amo office kay gi balik og hdd kay nagsige of hang ang computer. lain2x og brand ang ssd ang gigamit pero same problem. no logs for hardware failure unya no errors sa harddisk sentinel. Naay mga files nga sige og ka corrupt. gi try na nako ang registry fixes pero to no avail. Same pod ang na hitabo sa ako pc sa balay. Ni palit nalang kog new ssd unya gi gamit nako ako old ssd para sa virtual machines. so far stable pa after 4 months.

[jesse5648]

aw, ,boss erwin abi nkog stable ang ssd, ,dili diay?? aguy, ,sa ubang ssd users diha naka experience mog same kay boss erwin, ,ga duha2 na noon q mag ssd da, ,tsskk

salamat kaayu sa info boss erwin

[i.draw.fast]

stable man akong mga ssd.

so far walay problema. gikan sa 2 ka adata 60gb, intel 80gb, crucial 120gb, ocz vertex 4 120gb, sandisk 60gb, sandisk 240gb.

walay problema tanan...

[jesse5648]

stable man akong mga ssd.

so far walay problema. gikan sa 2 ka adata 60gb, intel 80gb, crucial 120gb, ocz vertex 4 120gb, sandisk 60gb, sandisk 240gb.

walay problema tanan...

pila na ka years nimo gamit boss??