HHD SSD and m.2 ssd

Wow a bunch of letters with a number thrown in. I'm going to talk about hard drives. Basically, if you are waiting 2-5 minutes or even longer for your pc to reboot and get you into windows, you are doing it wrong. If you buy a laptop that boots fast from a small 128gig ssd, while you store programs on your HDD 1 terabyte drive...you are doing it wrong. HDD or Hard disk drives at this time suck. Solid state drives have finally come down in price and are MUCH faster, more reliable and they last a lot longer. Also you really do not need massive storage drives anymore. Cloud computing can take a load off of your local storage. Of course you have to use it at your own risk. Many files have been hacked and shared around the internet.

If you have an office or work pc and you want use it longer. There are two things you should do. One make sure that it can run an SSD, max out its ram. If it is using older DDR2 ram throw it in the trash. DDR3 or DDR4. Basically DDR3 is very fast, while DDR4 is 10-20% faster. Today most pcs are sold with DDR4. However, the second hand market is flooded with DDR3 laptops and desktops.

So make sure you have minimum 8gigs of DDR3 ram, and 512 to 1 terabyte SSD drive. That alone will make your office pc last for a few more years. If you have an i5 or an i7 with 4 cores it might last even longer.

Some PC's have m.2 slots for the m.2 ssd drive. These transfer data MUCH faster than regular ssd drives. They are also much smaller and come in different sizes. Ask a trusted pc hard savvy friend to help identify what your machine uses. Desktops can use a PCI adapter to run one or even 2 m.2 ssd's.

Ok some pictures

Here you have the larger thicker HDD on the right Actually the SSD drive on the left is much smaller thinner and of course lighter. The HDD has spinning plates, with a mechanical arm that reads and writes data. Your speed is dependent on how fast the drive can spin. Also the more data you have on the drive can slow it down even more. The SSD has NO MOVING parts. It reads and writes at speeds that would make a HDD fail!

Here you can see that the m.2 drives are like a small memory ship. They are smaller, faster, and not heavy at all. They fit in the palm of your hand. The gaming pc I am using has 2 of the B type slots. So I will be buying 2 512 gig or terabyte drives. I can not wait to install them. 

Ok I have one more class. I had better run!

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