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What's the diference, external hard drive?
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HDD - mechnical disk
SSD - solid state disk (no moving parts)
That's what post #10 is probably asking about.0 -
forgotmyname wrote: »Bit cheaper at Argos
Thanks for trying to help, I had a voucher code so I got it for the same price. Although the price in argos is £60 that is for 1TB, the one I got in Currys was 2TB and that is priced at £85 in ArgosThe best things in life are for FREE!!!If you like what you see and find this info useful, please use the thanks button. It costs nothing and means so much.0 -
The differences depend on what you purchase. You could go all out and purchase an SSD drive which would be very small and thin and load programs much quicker than a common hard drive. Or you could purchase a Hybrid SSD which is half and SSD and half disk - not much use unless you'd be using this internally as a boot up drive in which case windows would be booted from the SSD section along with other programs you use on a regular basis. Or you can purchase a normal HDD (has disks) which would be big and slow compared to the ssd and hybrid ssd.
disregard all of the above in terms of speed if you are using a usb 2.0 port, you will want usb 3.00
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