is this an ssd hard drive
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No, this is not a SSD drive. I would not recommend using a SSD drive as an external device. The price point per gigabyte ( X gigabyte/$ = pricepoint) does not make financial sense. Also , you will suffer a performance hit with most of the common available ports on a laptop or pc (USB2/USB3 {avg 90MBs} and eSATA {avg 75MBs}) ,which would neglect the advantage of these super fast devices (SSD avg 500MBs). Because of the port speeds an old fashion hard drive is the best choice.
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No, this is an old-fashioned hard drive but it is nice and compact. I have had it for just over a month now and really like it because it is quiet and keeps cool.
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It's an mSATA SSD, not a hard drive, and there is a video on blog dot parts-people dot com that shows how to replace it.
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Its a Samsung 128 G Hard Drive (Disk not Solid State)SAMSUNG MZMPC128HBFU-000
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The drive is 5400rpm. Honestly I don't notice as my OS is installed on the SSD so the OS is very fast. All of my programs are on the 5400rpm drive.
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No, it is a bare bones drive. I ordered a SATA cable separately from amazon.
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Yes, I belive it is. There is a person that said they put a 250gb SSD on their PC in the rating's comments.
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It is a laptop.There is a 128gb solid state drive ( ssd )Newer,faster,better .
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Yes. It is an external hard drive. It will behave as another drive on your computer.
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It is an enclosed SSD, so yes it comes with the drive. A very good one too. I own 1-240GB and 2-460GB U32's. If you have the same experience I have had with these drives you will like it a lot!
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Toshiba Website and trial product experience at Best Buy showed it is a SSD
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this is not SSD its the usual HDD i.e it spins, there are those with an SSD drive but they cost a lot more close to US$1,000, they are available on amazon
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Nothing outside of the Drive itself sees the SSD. All your computer detects is a standard SATA III drive. The SSD is controlled within the drive with cache firmware to deliver better performance.
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HDD stands for hard disk drive. Technically an SSD is the same thing. Yes, you can use either on it. Both use SATA connectors which are identical.
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SSD drive are solid state memory, similar, but not exactly the same as the memory your computer runs on. They can be re-written over and over again, but do have a life span for the number of writes.... You will never see an issue with this, unless you have 'failure' which is uncommon. I have replaced all 3 HDs in my machines with SSD drives..... I am NOT running any HD drives at all any more......... They are fast and quiet........
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No the HDD is a Seagate thin notebook Hybrid Drive that is a portion of the drive is Solid State which may improve performance on repetitive access be careful about theBrands of external Hard Drives you attach because some of the supplied software may cause the PC to respond very slowly
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It works as a caching device for your mechanical hard drive.Since SSD is faster, anything that the computer can get from the SSD drive instead of the mechanical hard drive is faster and so speeds up your computer.The SSD is 32 GB and most mechanical hard drives are 500 gigabytes to several terabytes. So the data the computer is using the most at the time is being constantlyswapped out between the mechanical and solid state drives. Hope this helps. The slower your mechanical hard drive is the more performanceincrease you will see.
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I have no idea other than to say it likely is. Check the specs on your existing drive, and if they're similar, I'd get it. It's a very good, fast and seemingly reliable drive. Easy to install. Do not buy the WD!