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Indeed, a good SSD is usually significantly faster, and it consumes less power–a big consideration for laptop users. Also, because it has no moving parts, it's much less susceptible to damage. Alas, SSDs still cost quite a bit more than hard drives.
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SSD test: Samsung, Crucial, Plextor and Kingston race it out
With all the noise about how last year's floods in Thailand have wrecked the hard drive industry, and Intel's latest efforts on ultrabooks (laptops which are obliged, by its requirements, to have some sort of solid-state disk, aka SSD, storage) it's …
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