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Question: What is the advantage of SSD vs. regular hard drive?
Document: I love this thing. It is so fast compared to my hard drive. It comes well protected with a orange flexible stretchy material to protect. It came with a cable, and was recognized by my iMac immediately. Looking for a 256 GB SSD, this is the one to get. It is fairly quiet, and did  I mention Fast? It is fast. about 385 mb/s  reading stats I got. not too bad. Highly recommended for everyone.
Nice durable drive. No problems with this solid state hard drive other than what it cost. Need a portable drive, grab this one.
I purchased this as a hard drive for my Mac Mini. Right out of the box, it works great, the response time is phenomenal which speaks to the quality of the MAC as well as the drive. I would definitely recommend this product to anyone who is looking for a drive, either backup or main.
I have a 2012 Imac 27&#34;, it started running somewhat slowly after just a few months use. After some research, I found that the bottleneck was the internal hard disk (dropbox+crashplan+spotlight = RIP).I bought two of these drives, one as boot drive and the other one for documents, and must say I will never go back to spinning hard drives!I did ditch the orange rubber though.
I use this drive to transferring footage from set. It's writes quick and allows for us to quickly dump footage off of the camera media.It's the perfect drive to edit off of, other than the storage space is a bit tight. It works as advertised, can't wait for larger SSD capacity!
i got this to ad some storage for my 2013 macbook pro retina. its got 756gb of flash SSD built in so i thought this would be a good supplement for extra memory. Im a photographer and i figured i would backup and store all my photos onto this. So far its worked great. from my macs SSD to this SSD is insanely fast, somewhat comical compared to my old computer and old external drive.
This might be the closest thing to a perfect drive. Dual connection options (Thunderbolt and USB 3), rugged case, SSD speed. How could you hate it? My only complaint was the price, but let's face facts, SSD drives are still the exception and not the rule. The only downside (if there is one) is that the drive can definitely get warm! But that's not a major issue, just something to keep note of when you go to grab it after fairly heavy use.
Got this to add a bootup SSD drive to my 2011 iMac. Amazing and fast. Maybe not as fast as having an SATA3 drive sitting on directly on the bus (as they get, reportedly, up to 600 MB/s read/writes, but according to Blackmagic Disk Speed Test, I'm getting 298 MB/s writes and 378 MB/s reads.Also, install TRIM. Prior to that I was getting half the write speed.LaCie made this EASY with this GREAT product.
Incredible data transfer speed and the SSD quality means it can take quite a bit of abuse and still work very well. Setting it up and using it with my Mac is a piece of cake. I like using Time Machine instead of the backup software it comes with but both work very well.
Astonishingly fast, reliable (so far), wakes instantly, BUS powered: what's not to like? One star lost because the price is out of line with other similar products. Otherwise, a superb drive. My iTunes library lives on one of these.
Answer: The main advantages of an SSD (solid state disk) vs a regular hard drive are speed and durability as well as being quieter (silent).  In general the speed is much improved so that starting your computer, loading applications, and even just moving around the file system will be noticeably faster and feel snappier.  Second, because SSDs lack moving parts, they are more resistant to damage from dropping or physical shock.  This makes them great for cell phones and laptops.  The disadvantages of SSDs are that they cost significantly more per GB than a conventional hard disk.  Also they typically are sold in smaller sizes (because of the increased cost as well as lower information density).  Combined, this means that for the same price you can get improved speed, durability, and noise by moving to an SSD, but typically end up with significantly less space then you would have if you bought a regular hard drive of the same cost.