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which is better an SSD or a hard drive honestly it's sort of like asking which

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is better a motorcycle or a semi-truck all right so you might be sitting there

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going that's a weird thing to say lionist why would you say something like

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that and the answer is because they're really not that comparable they're just

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different let's start with performance when it comes to Raw speed ssds are

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faster I see many folks comparing the sequential speed of an SSD to the

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sequential speed of a hard drive and saying oh well they're kind of similar

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but the reality of it is unless you copy large files back and forth all day this

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specification is pretty much meaningless I'm serious it has nothing to do with

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the way that they will that you will perceive the performance in the real

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world ssds are all about little data

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transactions that happen all the time all over the place when you're running

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something like an operating system on them you know an instant message comes

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through a program launches and needs to access a ton of little files all over

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the place these are the times when not having to physically move move ahead

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across a disc allows an SSD to utterly

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destroy a hard drive in terms of performance in system responsiveness any

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modern SSD will be easily several times faster than any hard drive and sometimes

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much more than that okay that's great but what if you have lots of data to

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store and that's your main concern it's not like playing back video or music

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files or looking at your archive of pictures requires blazing fast

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performance so this is where hard drives still Excel at the time of filming this

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$160 buys you either a 256 GB SSD or a 4

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terb yes a 16 times larger hard drive

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for that kind of difference in price per gig you could literally build two hard

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drive based storage boxes and have one of them set up as an off-site backup

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with the money that you saved by not using an SSD based backup solution so

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yes folks for mass storage of data we are a long way away from hard drives

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being replaced by ssds okay but what about reliability now this one's a

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little bit complicated hard drives are pretty reliable these days but as

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devices with moving Parts they will die eventually the good news is they usually

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give warning signs like uh if your hard drive is making clicking noises right

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now for example first check to make sure it hasn't turned into a dolphin then

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replace it if it is still a hard drive um but the bad news is that any kind of

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use will wear them out for ssds reading

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from them a won't really wear them out very much especially if you keep them

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running cool but if you write to them heavily you can kill a consumer grade

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model relatively quickly so I guess I'd

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put it this way in an environment where shock is an everyday occurrence such as

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in a notebook or tablet I would choose SSD every time in an environment where

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that's not the case then reliability to me is a secondary Factor after I

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determine my performance and storage needs which leads us to the in between

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solution hybrid drives these leverage the technology of hard drives and ssds

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at the same time but that's a topic that I've covered separately so I'm just

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going to leave a link here for you for that now speaking of hybrid Solutions an

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audiobook is kind of like a hybrid between reading a book and riding a

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motorcycle you know because it's informative and exciting okay I was

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reaching a little bit there but my Segways can't always be perfect the

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point is that if you go to audible.com tequ you can browse the internet's

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