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SSD vs. HDD – What’s Best For You?
Have you considered upgrading to an SSD drive for your next desktop or laptop purchase? Here’s why you should consider it.
Solid State Drives (or SSDs) have shown to consistently outperform hard disk drives (HDDs) in just about every category. They are faster, more durable, last longer, use less energy, run at lower temperatures and are quieter. Recent innovations in the technology of SSDs have brought their prices down bringing them within reach of many institutional buyers.
Here’s why you should consider an SSD upgrade on your next refurbished computer purchase.
Solid State Drives Are Much, Much Faster
SSDs run up to a 100 times faster than 7200rpm drives. That means that programs run faster, the computers take much less time to boot up and that files are transferred and saved in no time.
A traditional HDD has a spinning disk and head that needs to move to find the data. All those moving parts mean that time is lost in locating and reading the data. Solid state drives have no moving parts – all the data is right there at the fingertips of the machine, ready to be used.
System boot: 23 seconds with SSD vs. 63 seconds with HDD.
File Copying: 630% faster with SSD than with HDD.
[source: http://ocz.com/consumer/ssd-guide/ssd-vs-hdd]
Solid State Drives Are Much More Durable
Hard disk drives have moving parts (the disk and the head) that are susceptible to mechanical failures. It means that if you drop or shake a HDD at the wrong time, you can lose all your data. Solid state drives have no moving parts and can take impact without much of a problem. It also means that they naturally last longer. [source: http://ocz.com/consumer/ssd-guide/ssd-vs-hdd]
In notebooks, hard disk drives are often malfunctioning or failing because the machine gets moved, impacted, or bumped. Solid state drives are a much more reliable option and last much longer.
Mean time between failure rate is 2.0 million hours for SSD and 1.5 million hours for HD. [source: http://www.storagereview.com/ssd_vs_hdd].
Solid State Drives Run At Lower Temperatures & Use Less Energy
Without a motor spinning a disk, solid state drives run at lower temperatures than hard disk drives. Lower temperatures mean that the machine uses less energy and has less risk of overheating. In institutional settings this can mean significantly less energy consumption over hundreds of machines. In the case of a notebook, solid state drives use significantly less battery life as well. [source: http://www.storagereview.com/ssd_vs_hdd].
SSDs Are No Longer Prohibitively Expensive
When they were first introduced, SSDs were expensive enough to be useful only to customers with special computing needs. But now the difference in price is small enough that the value of an SSD makes it worth the small added cost. When you factor in the energy savings and longer life of SSDs it’s easy to see how you save money in the long run. Additionally, cloud storage has made large hard drives less desirable.
Take advantage of the latest storage technology and upgrade to an SSD on your next refurbished computer purchase. Give us a call and we can discuss the options.
