All About Solid State Drives (SSD)

Prices on solid – state drives are dropping, and operating systems (particularly Windows 7) are beginning to take advantage of the potential higher speeds of SSDs , so it’s a good time to consider slapping one in your computer. Why Switch? Though SSDs tend to be faster overall than hard- disk drives , their speed advantage doesn’t hold across the board. Normally an SSD reads data at a much quicker rate than an HDD does (Intel claims that a typical HDD takes 4000 microseconds …