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mr__ed
Explorer
Jul 07, 2017

Does a Large Capacity Hard Drive Make a Computer Run Slower

Out of curiosity, I've been looking at new laptops lately. I've noticed that many come with 1TB drives, either HDD or SSD. My current laptop's HDD is half of that capacity and does fine for my purpos...
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bighatnohorse
Explorer II
Jul 07, 2017
Heisenberg wrote:
The SSD will boot up in less than 20 seconds. It is faster overall than the HDD. Size does make a difference especially when you get some data on them but the difference is not linear. In other words a 500 GB is not twice as fast as a 1 TB.

The SSD drives are amazing - boot up is much, much quicker.

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