Conversely, a hard disk drive uses a mechanical arm with a read/write head to move around and read information from the right location on a storage platter. Like a memory stick, there are no moving parts to an SSD while information is stored in microchips. You’re probably familiar with USB memory sticks - SSD can be thought of as an oversized and more sophisticated version of the humble USB memory stick. Let me diffentiate below these three storage:
Examples and most commonly use flash storage for laptop is SSD and eMMC while non-flash storage is HDD.
You might ask, is it really important? Should I care about it by knowing the type of storage in my laptop? The answer is yes! So in this thread I will try to differentiate commonly use storage for laptop but this thread does not promote any brand or manufacturer of storage.īasically there are only two generic type of storage, flash storage and non-flash storage. Do you sometimes questions why does your laptop becomes very slow even with a powerful CPU and RAM? Have you recently encounter data loss just by accidental drop of your laptop? This thread might help you understand one important hardware of your laptop, this is the storage.
