Technology Duel: Hard Disks vs Solid State Drives

Although they're not widely known by the general public, solid state drives are slowly but surely stealing market share from traditional hard disk drives.  It's time to put the two rival technologies head to head to see what stands between them.

Despite being largely unknown to the general public just a few years ago, the cost of SSD drives is falling fast and they are beginning to find favour with consumers.  More and more people are now willing to consider them as a replacement for the traditional hard disk drives that have been around for decades.

It's reached a stage where it's now worth considering both technologies before choosing a drive, whether you're building a new computer or replacing an existing drive.

That's why we've decided to take a leading light from each side of the divide: the Western Digital Velociraptor 300 GB is flying the flag for hard drives, while the OCZ Agility 120 GB is representing SSDs

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