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Old 12-24-2010, 12:38 AM   #19
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SSD is essentially a hard drive that dosen't have any moving parts. Think of it as a huge stack of SD cards combined to make 60gb or something - though of course it's not as simple as that, but the concept is similar.

In a regular harddrive you have a stack of disks, and when your computer needs to access a file it needs to physically spin up the drive, and then look for the file (think of how a CD drive works)
Now since your computer's OS needs access to a good handful of these files at any given moment, imagine the time savings with an SSD where you don't need to physically move anything to gain access to a file.
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