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Old Jan 29, 2011 | 4:06 pm
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Originally Posted by gfunkdave
SSD = solid state drive. It's the same technology as a USB thumb drive, but in hard disk form. As a result, it is much faster. My laptop used to take a good minute or two from when I pressed the power button until I could use it - and even then, it kept loading stuff off the hard drive for several more minutes. Now it takes 20 seconds from pressing the power button to using Firefox.
I know what an SSD is I was curious what it meant to appropriate it and why it would then lose 10GB, if that was some secret process you ran to make it even faster. Though rereading the post my guess is that you mean it is 10GB less than the hdd you had before.
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