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Laptop hard drive

  • 20-06-2017 05:53PM
    #1
    webpal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,422 ✭✭✭


    Haven't been in the market for a laptop for a while. A lot of the ones at the moment have 32 or 64 gb others 500 gb or 1 tb. Why such a difference? Are the newer drives able to run most programs on a laptop? I would have thought quite a sizeable chunk of that would be taken up by existing programs.


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,053 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    drives of 256 and lower are SSD and are faster
    128 is too small if you want movies and such - treat as poverty spec for occasional use
    anything less you might as well get a tablet and stick an SD card in it.

    larger drives are spinning rust


  • #3
    webpal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,422 ✭✭✭webpal


    So why the huge reduction in capacity? External drives? Just looking at did.ie for example and most laptops are 32/64gb


  • #4
    ItHurtsWhenIP
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    Are the 32GB & 64GB ones Netbooks rather than laptops? If so it's probably soldered flash memory rather than SSD.


  • #5
    webpal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,422 ✭✭✭webpal


    They are laptops - just looking at PC world and they have emmc which is not ssd. I'm just looking at something under 500 quid and maybe that's why all I see is this.


  • #6
    ItHurtsWhenIP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭ItHurtsWhenIP


    webpal wrote: »
    They are laptops - just looking at PC world and they have emmc which is not ssd. I'm just looking at something under 500 quid and maybe that's why all I see is this.

    That was it ... eMMC ... I couldn't think of the exact type when I posted.


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