Computer Hardware
Rebekah Beaumont 2T
Hard Drives and SSD
A Hard Drive is a computerised component that is able to save all your work including; photo's, apps and documents. A Hard Drive on the inside is a disc that is always spinning with an arm that helps saving your documents, photo's etc. Unfortunately Hard Drives, as they have loads of moving parts if they were to be dropped then it is more likely for something to go wrong or break. However an SSD, Solid State Drive, is a more modern version of a Hard Drive, it is thinner, lighter, and more reliable as it has no moving parts. But as the SSD has all these better features it is more expencive. Both of these have the same funtion but overall the SSD is a better, more reliable component to use.
Hard Drive
you are here able to see all of the moving parts in the Hard Drive can easily come out of place or break.
New and old computers
on the left is a new, modern computer that would have an SSD to keep it lighter and thinner on the right is an older computer which would have a Hrad Drive which is why is it thicker and less reliable than the newer one.
SSD (solid state drive)
you are able to see here how thin the SSD is compared to the Hard Drive and that is doesn't have any moving