Did you forget which of your drives is a hard disk (HDD) or solid-state (SSD)? Here are two ways to figure it out, which involve opening or not opening your PC.

Raidon on Monday unveiled the HyBrid Disk, a storage device that features both a solid-state drive (SSD) and a hard drive in one mechanism. Designed to replace 3.5-inch hard drive mechanisms ...

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When it comes to choosing a hard drive in your computer, you can get a solid-state drive (SSD) or a hard disk drive (HDD). The pros and cons of these respective types of drives are well-known.

Running a solid state drive on your desktop computer has several advantages over using a traditional hard drive. Your computer boots faster, shuts down much more quickly and programs open faster.

If that same computer had been built with a solid-state drive, I can almost guarantee you that would not have worked. It would have lost its information over that period of time," Doller said.

Winner: SSD . Form Factor. HDDs typically either come in 3.5-inch, 2.5-inch or 1.8-inch form factors. As HDD companies need to be able to cram disks and actuator arms into the casing, ultimately ...