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1,599 PointsHow about SSDs?
Difference between Hard Disk Drive and SSD? I learned that HDDs use magnetism but how about SSDs? Why are they faster and are they as fast as RAM?
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Dale Severude
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 71,350 PointsSSDs store data on flash memory chips and are much faster than HDDs because they have no moving parts,
https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404258,00.asp
However RAM is still much faster than SSD.
https://lifehacker.com/5969767/add-a-ram-disk-to-your-computer-for-faster-than-ssd-performance