What is HDD?

HDD stands for Hard Disk Drive. It is a mass storage device that consists of mechanical parts i.e a rotating disk you all may have seen CD ROM the same kind of disk you will notice inside a Hard Disk.

Since it has many moving parts it will consume a lot of power. It is also very slow in performance and even bulky in size.

In case the HDD or the device consisting of HDD drops than there are chances of loss of data, the HDD may get corrupted.

We can get HDD’s at a very low price. They are applicable to store a large amount of data such as image files, audio files, video files documents, etc. They operate with an average speed of 140mb/s. The rotating disk produces sound while operating.

What is SSD?

SSD stands for Solid State Drive as the name itself indicates, it is completely solid it does not contain any moving parts. It resembles the SD card but will be larger in size.

SSD operates with an average speed of 140 MB/s. This speed enables us to perform heavy tasks without any disturbances.

SSD consumes less power. Coming to its cost they are very costly as compared to HDD.

Conclusion

Finally, I recommend you to buy a hybrid drive which comes with a combination of both SSD and HDD. Where you can store your operating system and software in SSD and other files in HDD.