| When you get a netbook, one of the options that you | | | | taken with you meaning it will be bumped quite a bit |
| have is buying one with a normal hard drive or a solid | | | | during the day. A solid state drive is meant to hold up |
| state drive. Many times you can get 100 gigabytes of | | | | to these conditions. |
| a traditional hard drive for the same price as a 16 | | | | A third advantage is speed. Accessing documents or |
| gigabyte solid state drive. While it seems easy to pick | | | | files from a solid state drive happens significantly |
| the larger capacity drive, what advantages does the | | | | faster than on a normal hard drive. Since a netbook |
| solid state one offer? | | | | has less power than a laptop or desktop does, it |
| Even though it's much less space to store your | | | | needs all the speed advantages it can get. This drive |
| documents on, there are some huge advantages to | | | | will give your netbook much more speed when |
| these non-traditional drives. The first is that there are | | | | accessing files from the hard drive. |
| no moving parts. As the name says, it's a solid piece | | | | With cheap expansion memory available like USB |
| of equipment. Normal drives spin and have "needles" | | | | sticks, having less space on the drive should not be |
| that read the disk. When these heat up over time | | | | too much of an issue. |
| there is a chance of failure. This type of hard drive | | | | If you absolutely need more space on the physical |
| can last years longer as there are no moving parts. | | | | drive, get the larger drive, but understand what |
| A second advantage is that if the computer is | | | | advantages of solid state technology are being given |
| dropped or bumped there is little chance losing any | | | | up for some extra space. |
| data. A netbook is a computer that is meant to be | | | | |