Why homeowners may not want to switch from hard drives to SSD

There are some computer companies, such as Dell, etc. that are making new computers with solid state drives instead of hard disk drives. It sounds wonderful considering these solid state drives can hold more than a hard disk drive. Though a solid state drive can hold more information than a hard disk drive, it should never be filled to capacity. Did you know that a SSD drive may be faster than a hard drive, but it can slow down as it fills to capacity? It leads to slower writing of the SSD drive and also can slow down a Mac. It may mean you need a laptop hard drive recovery. It also may mean recovering data from external hard drive could be slower than expected.

It may help to understand how a SSD writes to a drive. Did you know it looks for empty blocks to write to? If you have a newer computer, it also could support the TRIM feature. The TRIM feature automatically deletes a file’s data from the operating system as soon as you choose to delete a file from your computer. However, with a hard drive, bits of magnetic information may still exist on the hard drive. This is why recovering data from an external hard drive may be easier and possible with a hard disk drive. It may not be possible with the TRIM feature to do Apple data recovery in the same manner.

Writing over or erasing data first is the difference between two Drives 

A hard disk drive will overwrite over data in a hard drive, meaning only a licensed professional should be recovering data from an external hard drive. But, with a solid state drive, laptop hard drive recovery may not even be possible. With a solid state drive, information in a sector or block on the hard drive must be erased before it can be written. The problem with a solid state drive is that eventually erasing data before writing it to a block may become time-consuming. The reason is that full blocks of written data fill up. Only partial blocks of data remain, but it is hard to do Apple data recovery with partial blocks that must be read, erased and then written. With hundreds of partial blocks to read, this slows down a computer that has a solid state drive.

With a hard disk drive, users can run clean-up and optimize their drives and condense partially used blocks into blocks that are full blocks of data. Instead of using up valuable space, computers with hard disk drives will help conserve space. They also make it easier to run Apple data recovery by a trained professional, if needed. Solid state drives will like create full blocks of data and also some blocks of partially filled data. However, unlike a hard disk drive, SSD drives do not allow computer users to condense information. Once a solid state hard drive is full, computer users have a drive that likely has blocks of partial information still on a hard drive and it slows down the overall performance of the computer. This is why computer users may opt to have a hard disk drive on their computer, instead of opting for a newer model that has a solid state drive.

Isn’t it good to know a professional can help if you do encounter a problem with your hard drive and need to recover data after accidentally erasing it? Did you know a professional can often times perform laptop hard drive recovery, retrieving sensitive information in a number of cases? We recover data from Raid systems, laptop hard drives, external hard drives, USB flash drives and more.