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Figure 44—The SDRAM properly seated into the MOBO memory slots
on this further in Overclocking , on page 87 ) . But we're not ready to turn the
computer on just yet. We have to add long-term storage and a few other
components first.
SSDs, HDDs, and DVDs
The two primary types of long-term storage today are solid-state drives and
hard-disk drives. SSDs are superior to the older-technology HDDs because
they have no moving parts and can read and write data much faster. However,
SSDs are much more expensive than HDDs and do not yet hold the capacity
that HDDs can. For this reason, we are going to combine the best of both
technologies in our PC. We'll use an SSD to store our operating system and
our most popular application files while we use an HDD to store our long-
term large files such as games, videos, and other multimedia data.
Solid-State Drives
Like many of the hardware choices already made in this topic, SSDs come in
all different capacities and speeds. SSDs are also prone to failure if they are
constantly writing data. Since we're going to use the drive primarily to install
and run our operating-system files, I recommend spending the money for the
 
 
 
 
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