Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 30 days agoMy brothers Chuwi laptop had major problems. Now he got a wal-mart gift card for the price he paid for the Chuwi. He is eyeing an HP laptop with 256gb ssd. Is that the same as a regular harddrive?message-squaremessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up117arrow-down1message-squareMy brothers Chuwi laptop had major problems. Now he got a wal-mart gift card for the price he paid for the Chuwi. He is eyeing an HP laptop with 256gb ssd. Is that the same as a regular harddrive?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 30 days agomessage-square28fedilinkfile-text
Can he download stuff like a regular hard drive where you get 256gb of space or is it like a cloud service or something?
minus-squareDon_Dickle@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·30 days agoBut can he store the same amount on an SSD as a regular Hard Drive? I ask because Chromebooks want you to use the cloud and shit like that.
minus-squareSteve@communick.newslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·edit-230 days ago256GB is 256GB. It doesn’t matter if it’s a HDD or SSD. The SSD will be faster though.
minus-squarehoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·30 days agoThe storage sizes are universal, 256gb is 256gb. Just on an SSD it’s faster.
minus-squareLumidaub@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·30 days agoThat depends on what programs come preinstalled on the laptop, not on the type of storage. 256 GB on HDD are the same size as 256 GB on SSD.
But can he store the same amount on an SSD as a regular Hard Drive? I ask because Chromebooks want you to use the cloud and shit like that.
256GB is 256GB. It doesn’t matter if it’s a HDD or SSD. The SSD will be faster though.
The storage sizes are universal, 256gb is 256gb. Just on an SSD it’s faster.
That depends on what programs come preinstalled on the laptop, not on the type of storage. 256 GB on HDD are the same size as 256 GB on SSD.