The primary benefit of using SSDs over HDDs is their speed. Solid State Drives offer incredibly faster performance compared to the traditional hard disks. SSDs don’t have physical moving parts (such as spinning platters) and as such, they consume little energy and make no noise.
However, SSDs have a few major drawbacks. They’re very expensive and thus, limited in size. There are ‘write’ limitations with SSDs. Writing too much data can decrease your SSD’s overall lifespan. So, if you’ve recently bought an SSD, sit back and read this guide to get a glimpse about it’s expected lifespan and the best practices to improve your SSD’s life expectancy.
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