what is the Difference between Hard Disk and SSD drive ?
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Jump to PostHard Disk drives are mechanical. They have a rotating metal disk and have an arm that rides to and fro above the surface of that rotating disk. On the tip of that arm is a 'head' reading magnetically stored data layed out in the form of tracks, sub-divided into sectors.
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Jump to PostPigPaw gave a great synopsis, but for this:
Hard drives basically have unlimited read/write cycles - as long as they are functional, you can read/write data to them without concern. SSDs have a limited number of read/write cycles - NAND flash that most use has a limit of about 10,000 …
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