Disadvantages of SSD

1. Limited number of rewriting cycles

This is the main disadvantage of solid state drives. The most popular MLC type memory allows you to write information from 3 to 10 thousand times, the most budget TLC drives are guaranteed to withstand up to a thousand times, and the most expensive SLC memory chips limit rewriting to hundreds of thousands. 

2. High cost

The cost of 1 GB of solid state memory is about 10 times the price per gigabyte of HDD. But all those advantages that we described above fully justify this price difference. By the way, the larger the size of the SSD (this rule also works for the hard drive), the less you will have to pay for each gigabyte.

The high price is temporary, as the cost of such drives is constantly decreasing. Plus, you'll save a lot more money by buying a solid state drive and giving your computer a new lease on life than if you buy a new PC or upgrade your old one by purchasing other components (given their dependence on each other, which, by the way, SSD does not have).

3. The impossibility of recovering deleted information

Unfortunately, data that is lost from an SSD cannot be recovered. And no program will help you - it does not exist in nature! So, with an overvoltage in the HDD, only the controller will most likely burn out, but in the SSD the entire device will fail completely.

Outcome                       

Currently, only "antediluvian" operating systems do not support SSDs. But with a strong desire, even very old computers can be reanimated, however, with the obligatory presence of a SATA connector in their motherboard computer enginer.

In laptops, instead of a CD-drive, which is now rarely used by anyone, additional trays for hard drives. They are quite inexpensive. As a result, you have an old hard drive in your drive, and a new solid-state drive in the same place.

However, if you own a very decrepit laptop or stationary computer, it makes no sense to purchase an expensive SSD. You will not be able to see even half of its capabilities.

Getting an SSD for data storage is also not worth it. Firstly, the price of this device is very tangible, secondly, due to the constant rewriting of a large amount of information, the drive quickly fails, and thirdly, if the SSD is overvoltage, it will "die" along with all the data. It would be wiser and more practical to buy a solid-state drive only for the placement of the operating system, but we still recommend storing personal information on an HDD or a removable USB drive.

There isn't much point in an SSD for video game enthusiasts either. Some gamers believe that with an SSD, their favorite toy will stop slowing down. Perhaps the drive will speed it up slightly, but its presence or absence will not affect the FrameRate indicators (the number of frames per second). In games, preference should still be given to powerful video cards, processors and RAM. But that's a completely different story