Different sizes have different use cases, basically, so you’ll want to consider how the drive’s size affects what you want to do with it. Some are, sure, but others are so large you’ll barely ever remove them from your desk.
Just because it’s an SSD doesn’t mean it will be a particularly fast one, so we’ll make sure to let you know the speeds of all the drives on this list. Speed: To go along with the previous section, just getting an SSD isn’t enough: You’ll also want to keep an eye on the read and write speeds (which is how fast the drive can retrieve data from a device and send it back, respectively).Both types of SSDs are more expensive than HDDs for their increased speed, but there are other benefits-for example, HDDs can make a small amount of noise due to the spinning disc, while SSDs are quiet. SSDs have no moving parts and can transfer data much quicker, and NVMe’s even more so. HDDs use physical, analog discs to read and write data and are the slowest of the lot for it, but they’re also significantly more affordable. Drive Type: There are three main types of hard drives to pick from: Hard Disk Drives (or HDDs), Solid-State Drives (or SSDs), and Non-Volatile Memory Express SSDs (or NVMes for short).
