Comment on My brothers Chuwi laptop had major problems. Now he got a wal-mart gift card for the price he paid for the Chuwi. He is eyeing an HP laptop with 256gb ssd. Is that the same as a regular harddrive?

EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• mipadaitu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nervously glancing over at the stack of Exos 10TB drives I have as leftovers after upgrading a storage cluster to 18TB.

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    • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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  • SolOrion@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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

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