Hard drives are increasingly rare in new laptops, though, so your only option might be an SSD. Combining an SSD and an HDD is a great solution for those who want the best of both worlds.

Even the mighty SSD 750 only musters 36MB/s, and it’s effectively tied with the EVO 850 RAID 0 for read speeds; write speeds, on the other hand, still heavily favor the robust controller in the ...

HDD and SSD couldn't be more different in this regard. HDDs, being mechanical devices, generate both noise and heat as the platters spin and the read/write arm moves back and forth.

An NVMe SSD thus has better performance in terms of read and write speeds than a typical SATA HDD. SSHDs are quite like HDDs, except with an SSD component.

In other words: so what if the SSD-based system didn’t last quite as long, if it cranked through substantially more work during the time that it was alive as compared to the HDD-based alternative? The ...

TEST2 - Streaming data from an HDD in games allows for massive worlds and riveting non-stop action. TEST3 - Importing digital photos to Windows Photo Gallery is where a high performance HDD shines.

If you need faster performance and don't mind paying a bit more for it, an SSD is the way to go. If you need a lot of storage space and are working on a budget, an HDD may be a better option.

You can still buy older PATA (IDE) based SSD drives, but they are slower and usually smaller in capacity. On the next page let's take a look at the performance considerations between a HDD and SSD.

Benchmarks: AS SSD Benchmark. Hoping to nab a slice of the hybrid market, OCZ has launched its RevoDrive Hybrid which fuses a 100GB SSD to a PCB alongside a 1TB 2.5" ...

Put simply, SSD caching uses flash storage as cache memory to store frequently accessed data. Whenever data from the primary ...