Should I upgrade to an SSD?
In short, yes. Swapping your old spinning HDD is the single biggest most effective upgrade you can make to your computer or laptop. There are plenty of upgrades that may be beneficial but in 99% of cases, none of them would be as significant as moving to an SSD. We're so steadfast on that, that unless there is a specific need for it (SSDs are not perfect for all applications) when they fail, we replace all HDDs with SSDs as a matter of course. Buy why I hear you ask? HDD stands for hard disk drive. Imagine an old record player with the record spinning around and the needle moving across the vinyl to play the music. Only this time it's reading data. That's exactly what an HDD looks like inside. The trouble is that data isn't linear like music so quite often the needle has to move around the disk to find what it's looking for. That takes time and that's means you have to sit there, waiting, wondering if your computers jammed or not. You may have heard the term ...