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Originally Posted by KC Fish
It's a hard drive based on flash media, instead of actual physical platters that spin around like a normal hard drive. Because there's no moving parts, the hard drive doesn't have to wait for the platter to spin or the read head to find the data.
It's much much faster. You'll notice a huge difference in load times for the OS and apps.
The downside is that they're really expensive, and there's questions as to how reliable they'll be over time. Flash media tends to degrade over time.
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So I could just get a SSD and be fine without a traditional HD?