What's the best hard drive to buy? Your hard drive is out of date if its capacity is measured in gigabytes. Even a terabyte of space can seem cramped when you're stockpiling your movies, music and photograph collections.
Two terabytes isn't a bad starting point unless you're heavily into editing movies, and with prices tumbling, you don't have to pay much to enjoy excellent performance.At the moment, buying a hard drive gives you exactly two choices: a flash-based SSD, or a regular mechanical drive. The key difference is that, while SSD offers far superior performance, it comes with a price to match and you only get a few tens of gigabytes before the cost ceases to be effective.
Traditional drives are much slower, but hold far, far more, and in most cases you simply don't need the extra performance. Everything will still work just fine, just not quite as quickly.
As long as you're not used to the speed of Windows booting from SSD though, you're unlikely to chafe at even a mid-range drive's performance. There's plenty of life in the traditional style yet, and it remains the best way to handle your electronic life.(...)