SSDs and HDDs

Last lecture we learned about parts inside the mechanical hard drives. I was wondering what a solid state hard drive would be made up of since it doesn't have a actual disk spinning inside of it. After a simple google search....

This is for the mechanical hard drive. They all share a basic structure and are made up of the same physical features. Compared to SSDs, they are much cheaper but slower in accessing files.


This is an HDD (on top) and a SSD (on bottom). Note that the solid state drive is made up completely out of circuit board and access files much quicker than HDDs. They are much more expensive than HDDs. Below is a Video showing the diffrence betwen the two.