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? There’s no straight-forward answer to
this question; 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 SSDs has been falling, the price per
gigabyte advantage is still strongly with HDDs. Yet, if performance and
fast bootup is your primary consideration and money is secondary, then
SSD is the way to go. For the remainder of this article, we will make a
comparison of SSD and HDD storage and go over the good, the bad, and the
ugly of both.
