Chapter 1 : Introduction
Introduction
SSDs
Solid State Drives, or SSDs, store
data on solid NAND memory chips
as opposed to a mechanical
spinning disk and have become
increasingly popular with DIY PC
builders when building desktop PCs
due to their vastly superior read
and write speeds compared to
traditional mechanical hard drives.
Recent drops in pricing now mean
that the majority of DIY PC builds
employ an SSD for the OS. While
SSD capacities remain fairly limited
compared to regular mechanical
hard drives (most common
capacities are 64GB, 128GB and
256GB), most users choose to
install the Operating System and a
few selected applications on the
SSD which vastly improves overall
system responsiveness (especially
with large applications like
Photoshop or 3D
game titles).
Most users also
use a much
larger 7,200rpm
hard drive (above) f ܂