Hard drive question (Class help)

[SirNumbers]

Im doing a class project for my school and I need to build a budget PC and a high end PC and explain all the parts.

My question is, How are the way storage is saved on SSD's different for the way there stored on a HDD.

 

 

If anyone wants to give me pointers: https://docs.google.com/document/d/155QF7SattL2JFJUZKWw2lvThDEASDzneSvcgL_XO34s/edit?usp=sharing

[Enderman]

SLI and CFX are only able to do 4 way not 5 way.

 

This explains all you need to know about HDDs and SSDs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive

[GloriousPain]

Im doing a class project for my school and I need to build a budget PC and a high end PC and explain all the parts.

My question is, How are the way storage is saved on SSD's different for the way there stored on a HDD.

 

 

If anyone wants to give me pointers: https://docs.google.com/document/d/155QF7SattL2JFJUZKWw2lvThDEASDzneSvcgL_XO34s/edit?usp=sharing

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404258,00.asp on SSDs vs HDDs I recommend in the budget PC just throwing in a Baracuda HDD on the highend one go NUTZ

[Tro]

HDD stores data kinda similair to a CD, it stores it on a spinning disk that's getting read.

SSD's are like SD cards or USB sticks, it stores data on a chip instead. 

Not sure if that's enough info, it's all i know  

[Kingofpants]

Hard drives are a set of spinning magnetic platters that are written to and read from with a Little Arm controlled by a Electromagnet.

It's very similar to a Record player actually. Except the disk spins much much faster, the Little arm can actually write information and The arm moves back and forth across the disk very quickly.

SSDs on the other hand use NAND flash which is a form non-volatile (Doesn't lose info when power is lost) Memory with no moving parts, the same kind used in a USB thumbdrive. SSDs are very fast because they 're no moving parts and when information is needed from another sector of the disk you don't have to wait for anything and can start reading.