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HDD vs SSD Most people now buy laptops for their computing needs and have to make the decision between getting either a Solid State Drive (SSD) or Hard Disk Drive (HDD) as the storage component.  So which of the two is the better choice, an SSD or HDD? Each buyer has different needs and you have to evaluate the decision based on those needs, your preferences, and of course budget. Even though the price of SSD has been falling, the price per gigabyte advantage is still strongly with HDD. Yet, if performance and fast boot-up is your primary consideration and money is secondary, then SSD is the way to go. For the remainder of this article. What is an HDD? Hard Disk Drives have been around for donkey's years relative to the technology world. HDDs were first introduced by IBM in 1956 - yes folks this is nearly 60-year old technology, thank goodness vacuum tubes for TVs didn’t last so long An HDD uses magnetism to store data on a rotating platter. A read/write head floats ...