An SSD – or solid-state drive – used to cost thousands of dollars when it first became commercially available, and its capacity at the time was within a now-measly range of 512 Kb to 2 Mb. Who would’ve thought that SSD capacity would eventually reach terabyte levels, its prices would drop, and it would find its way inside laptops? You may ask though: What makes SSD laptops different from other ones that contain hard disk drives?

1. An SSD laptop performs faster than an HDD one.

You may find yourself getting frustrated with your HDD laptop too often an HDD laptop it takes too long to boot. Your frustration escalates after opening a handful of applications, each of which takes more than ten seconds before you can use them. Any games you’ve installed in your HDD laptop may also be prone to low FPS (or frames per second) that playing one feels like watching a flip book transition in slow motion even if you have a good graphics card that should render images faster.

You won’t have to endure all of these scenarios when you get yourself an SSD laptop. With an SSD laptop:

• You’ll experience booting and application loading times that are less than five seconds each, which is especially helpful if you have several tasks to do using the said device.
• You’ll also experience smoother and more fulfilling gameplay when you switch to an SSD laptop, which can be of great benefit to you if you professionally compete in massively multiplayer online role-playing games or MMORPGs.

2. File transfer happens faster when in an SSD laptop.

If you have to copy several gigabytes of files from one location in your HDD laptop to another, it can take several minutes up to a few hours to complete the entire transfer process. It gets slower when the destination is an external storage device.

With an SSD laptop, you can move or duplicate several files or one large-sized file either internally or externally in less than a minute at most.

3. An SSD laptop’s drive isn’t likely to sustain significant internal damage than one with an HDD in it.

Accidents do happen. If you accidentally drop your HDD laptop, any of the spindles, platters, and read/write heads that make up the internal components of its hard disk can easily get damaged. Even if you regularly back up your laptop’s hard disk to an external storage drive, there’s always the possibility that you will lose important files.

But when you switch to an SSD laptop, you won’t have to worry over losing your files anymore even after accidentally dropping the unit. Of course, it doesn’t mean that you should frequently subject an SSD laptop to shock testing as it still has other parts like its screen and touchpad that may sustain some irreparable damage once it hits any hard surface.

4. An SSD laptop consumes less battery power than an HDD one.

Do you use your HDD laptop when you’re on the go? One particular issue that may bug you is that its battery drains faster than what the manufacturer indicated in its specifications even after you already tried adjusting its power settings to a functional minimum. You can blame your laptop’s hard disk as it has moving parts that need battery power for them to run.

You’ll be better off with an SSD laptop, especially if you plan to frequently use it in places that don’t have any power sources to recharge its battery.

Conclusion

In the past, most people found it cost-prohibitive to buy an SSD laptop. But with SSD prices expected to fall significantly in 2019, getting an SSD laptop should be well within your budget. However, you shouldn’t base your buying decision on price alone. You’ll also have to consider the factors listed above in order to get a worthy investment.