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Planning to buy 13-inch: 2.5GHz with Retina display..Please kindly advise me
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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1462459" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>The retina Macbook Pro's have SSD's (Solid State Drive) which is essentially a ton of non-moving, non-volatile flash memory that looks like a hard drive to the computer. Traditional HD's have a number of platters and a number of fingers to read/write the data and the speed at which the platters spin and where the data is stored on that platter determines how quickly you can read/write..</p><p></p><p>SSD's with no moving parts don't have those limitations and thus result in faster read (and write) times for overall better performance..</p><p></p><p>Now SSD's have really begun hitting the computer markets in the past few years, as opposed to HD's which have been serving this purpose for decades, and as such the sizes of these are small right now. You CAN get a 512GB SSD, but the price is quite high compared to a traditional HD.</p><p></p><p>Now with 128GB of storage, you have to keep a constantly vigil on what you put on your drive and if you are going to have a ton of stuff you should consider using an external drive for all that.</p><p></p><p>Flash memory, unlike traditional HD, have a cycle time associated with them and as you write constantly to these devices, they will begin to develop errors and eventually fail. That's just the nature of Flash and using your SSD as your primary storage can make this happen a lot faster than you want it to..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1462459, member: 110816"] The retina Macbook Pro's have SSD's (Solid State Drive) which is essentially a ton of non-moving, non-volatile flash memory that looks like a hard drive to the computer. Traditional HD's have a number of platters and a number of fingers to read/write the data and the speed at which the platters spin and where the data is stored on that platter determines how quickly you can read/write.. SSD's with no moving parts don't have those limitations and thus result in faster read (and write) times for overall better performance.. Now SSD's have really begun hitting the computer markets in the past few years, as opposed to HD's which have been serving this purpose for decades, and as such the sizes of these are small right now. You CAN get a 512GB SSD, but the price is quite high compared to a traditional HD. Now with 128GB of storage, you have to keep a constantly vigil on what you put on your drive and if you are going to have a ton of stuff you should consider using an external drive for all that. Flash memory, unlike traditional HD, have a cycle time associated with them and as you write constantly to these devices, they will begin to develop errors and eventually fail. That's just the nature of Flash and using your SSD as your primary storage can make this happen a lot faster than you want it to.. [/QUOTE]
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