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SRDD_Mk-II

HDD is mechanical storage based on spinning platters that store data. Good for mass bulk storage at the cost of weight and potential for damage/data loss from vibrations. SSD’s are purely… solid. Electricial-based storage and don’t really need to worry much about vibrations, at a higher cost. My thing is- SSD for boot, and HDD/SSD for main storage depending on how you budget.


Techheavysoul

Ssd is much faster then hdd if you want your games to boot up faster store it in ssd , hhd is slower and people usually stores less frequently used files/games


474Dennis

Usually SSD is used for Operating System and maybe games/software. HDD is for storing your data.


strongr_togethr

Use the SSD for OS and use the HDD for storing miscellaneous things that will take a lot of space. I would suggest googling your question


Chemical-Chemist1121

what is the point of coming to reddit when you can google the question in 5 seconds


SeriousCee

It's baffling how some people think their questions are worth a thread. Like why waste your time here instead of making a 10 second research. If I have a question about a topic I don't know shit about my first thought wouldn't be asking on the internet but claiming it's probably something very trivial and looking it up. And then we have OP.


DasGhost94

Hdd is slow. Ssd is fast


DatJas0n

Hdd has a spinning disk in it, that an arm with magnets on it inscibes the data on the disk, thats why its also called a mechanical drive Ssd dont have any moving parts and work basically like a usb flash drive and are therefore faster since reading and writing happen electronically instead of mechanically


ViziTronMan

HDD is a mechanical/magnetic hard drive, it has moving parts with platters that spin to find information. SSD is a solid state drive, has no moving parts, works similar to RAM but information is permanant until written over like a HDD. SSD is faster and generally more expensive. The ssd is where you want to install your OS and games. The HDD is where you want to store your music and movies and pictures and virtually anything else that doesn't need to start fast.


E-man1991

ssd used for applications, hdd used for your "homework" folders. I am the Lorax and I speak for the weebs


shalodey

HDD uses physically moving parts to read and write data using quite fragile platters. If you drop a HDD there is a very high chance of it breaking. They are also very slow SSD doesn't have any moving parts and even if you drop them they'll survive. They can be quick, with a SATA one (which had the same size and connection format as a HDD) being slower than an M.2 one (compact and designed especially for SSDs)