{"id":88,"date":"2018-08-28T10:24:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T10:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2018-08-28T10:27:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T10:27:47","slug":"what-is-an-ssd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/what-is-an-ssd\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an SSD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>What is an SSD? &#8211; Solid State Drives<\/h1>\n<h2>Old Hard Drives (HDD)<\/h2>\n<p>In simple terms, old HDD&#8217;s had platters, similar to a CD or DVD. The platter spun around in the HDD case. There would then be a head that read the data from the surface of the platter, similar to the laser in a CD player. Although the platters in a HDD are magnetic.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with these HDD&#8217;s is that if the head, arm, platter is damaged then the data could be lost for good. (Data recovery can cost thousands this is why we suggest a backup and then backup that backup!) Think of driving a car along the road, the wheel is in motion and then you hit a curb, you could damage any number of suspension components. If you drop your laptop, while it&#8217;s on especially and the hard drive head goes into the platter and damages the platter. That part of the disk could be faulty.<br \/>\nAlso, because of the constant moving parts this can slow down over time.<\/p>\n<p>This is a video I posted to show what the inside of a HDD looks like<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"593\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Ik2rNUaL9g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>New SSD (Solid State Drives)<\/h2>\n<p>Think of a USB memory stick, it has no moving parts and has simply a chip inside that holds your data. This is the same premise for SSD&#8217;s they are just chips, working on similar tech to that in a USB memory stick. Because they have no moving parts the memory can be accessed very, very quickly as there is no spinning platter to take 1 read from. Just a memory address.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0.8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/65\/Embedded_World_2014_SSD.jpg\" width=\"386\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Inside the SSD<\/h3>\n<p>To the right is a SSD with the cover taken off, as you can see, very different from that of a mechanical drive. This drive has a load of microchips which store the data.<\/p>\n<p>SSD&#8217;s take less power than their mechanical brothers as there is no moving parts so I have seen operations on battery being longer in laptops being increased when upgrading customers. It really depends on the laptop to how much an extent, but I&#8217;ve seen a 20 minute battery operation improvement and also double improvement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in or around Newcastle upon Tyne we can perform a SSD upgrade for you. Give us a call or email to discuss 0191 500 8640 or sales(@)thecomputersaint.com (take the ( and ) out of the email address to send us an email)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is an SSD? &#8211; Solid State Drives Old Hard Drives (HDD) In simple terms, old HDD&#8217;s had platters, similar to a CD or DVD. The platter spun around in the HDD case. There would then be a head that&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/what-is-an-ssd\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,17],"tags":[115,120,121,118,84,116,20,117,119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}