HDD and SSD are both storage devices. However, there is one difference. At the same capacity, the price of an SSD is way too much compared to an HDD. Therefore, you'll often see laptops at the same price point offering either 1 TB of HDD or 256 GB of SSD. Now, we recommend a laptop that sports a mix of both. You can store files that you need to access quickly in the SSD storage and keep other files in the HDD.