A SSD, Solid State Drive, has no moving parts, uses very little power, generates no heat, operates about 50 times faster than a hard drive with spinning disks.
Here's one article for more info.
Advantages/Disadvantages - SSD vs HDD: What's the Difference? | PCMag.com
Wow, that's awesome. Never knew about this one 'till now. Thanks for the link as well!
Welcome to the forums, Kyle Marks. You have some decent scores for a laptop and as Britton30 said, an SSD will make you think you have a new laptop. It won't help the rest of your scores, but it will drastically increase your hard disk score.
Ohh, thanks for that link. Will try to check out a few more to compare before buying.
Rest is stock except for Crucial M4SSD. Gonna see about upgrading things soon. 7.8 on primary hard disk.
All my laptops came with large HDDs - none survived the first day because I always replace them with SSDs. My largest laptop SSD is 90GB. I keep all the data on large sticks and back those up to external disks. My latest aquisition (Asus Transformer) has only a 30GB SSD. Here I use a 64GB MicroSD card for the data and a 60GB SSD that I had lying around for backup.
I just wanted to make the point that a laptop does not necessarily need a large expensive SSD. A 120GB model for $80 or a 256GB model for $130 is ample in my book. And the data on the sticks has the advantage that I don't need a cloud. I can carry my data with me.
Example: sold for $69 with promo code - Newegg.com - Mushkin Enhanced Ventura Ultra 120GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Model MKNUFDVU120GB - check the R/W speeds.
Last edited by whs; 20 Feb 2014 at 19:28.
My second custom built PC. pretty proud of it myself
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