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Unlike traditional disks, SSD's have no moving parts. This means all data can be accessed instantly, whereas the traditional platter drives use little arms (heads) to seek data from the magnetic platters. This new technology yields performance gains of around 500% when writing and reading small files! Another benefit of having no moving parts, traditional hard drives are vulnerable to small scratches if the laptop is suddenly jarred and can lead to data loss... The biggest knock on SSD's is the cost and most likely why your computer doesn't already have an SSD in it. Fortunately, prices have come down drastically in the last few years - but cost per gigabyte remains higher than traditional hard drives. For most, 250GB is plenty... Therefore, the trade-off is an increase in performance at the expense of smaller capacity drives.