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hey guys this is Austin its DeMuth video going over some of my reasons on why you should get an SSD so if you've been watching the channel for any length of time you know I love SSDs they just make everything better it ranges but anyway they are really really good and there are a bunch of reasons why you should have an SSD on your computer if you look at computers today almost everyone is moving toward SSDs so take for example the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro both of these now only come with an SSD same thing goes for Windows ultrabooks you're pretty much always going to find they're going to come with an SSD as opposed to a normal hard drive but before we get into all the reasons why why we just take a look at what exactly an SSD is SSD is short for a solid-state drive and this is another type of hard drive your computer sees at the exact same way however it functions in a very different way more likely the computer you're using to watch this video right now is using a mechanical hard drive now this is basically a series of platters almost like a DVD although not really but it has a little on that will read the data off of the disk now this is great they have lots of storage and hard drives have been around for a very very long time you take a look at an SSD you'll see this is just a series of flash memory chips this is the very similar stuff to what you will find in an iPhone and iPad even in an SD card for your camera probably the biggest reason to go with an SSD is because of the speed an SSD will be able to boot your computer in seconds as opposed to minutes and applications will open almost instantly as opposed to waiting 10 15 20 seconds for Photoshop to open and since there are no moving parts in an SSD that means it is going to be generally more reliable so for example if you have a laptop with a normal spinning hard drive right now if you drop it or shake it around there's a very good chance that something could happen and you could lose your data on the hard drive whereas with an SSD it really doesn't matter SSDs have been around for a while now however the biggest problems has just been priced as generally SSDs for the amount of gigabytes you get or just not going to compare with a normal hard drive there are lots of SSDs out there but some of my favorites includes a crucial m4 you can pick up a 128 gigabyte version of the m4 for 105 dollars if you want to step it up to 256 gigabytes it's still only going to be two hundred four dollars another one of my favorite drives is the Samsung 830 series now this one's going to be a little bit more pricey however especially if you're using a Mac I think it's really worth it so for 128 gigabytes you can pick up for about $125 and for 256 gigabytes it's going to run you about 240 six dollars of course prices on these things are always changing and usually going down so I'll have links to the current prices of everything in the description of this video once you get your SSD I highly recommend downloading ccleaner as usually you're only going to have 120 or 240 gigabytes of storage every bit matters and it helps to get rid of all the kind of junk that's on your drive that's exactly what ccleaner does it will delete all kinds of random temporary files well not random just anything it's not necessary since thing goes for system files that aren't being used so lots and lots of programs will have unnecessary files just cluttering up your drive and all the kind of normal things including your recycle bin it allows you to easily uninstall programs all that kind of stuff best of all it's available for both Windows and Mac and it's totally free overall SSDs are awesome I have one of both my laptop and desktop and it really makes a huge difference I don't care if you have the most powerful gaming PC in the world if you're running it off of the normal hard drive you're really missing out I'm curious to know what do you guys think use an SSD if you do let me know in the comments I know a lot of people who look at SSDs and go why do I want to pay this much more for this less storage it doesn't who cares but it really I'm very curious to know do you guys think that the switch to an SSD was worth it because for me worth it 100 thousand million percent thousand million two thing anyway guys if you enjoyed this video definitely sure to leave it a thumbs up and if you're interested in more videos like this be sure to subscribe