Hard drive is not the right word, the people said of rotating disks with 5400 or 7200 U / min. This here are memory chips, similar to the memory, called RAM or SD card, as they are known from digital cameras. Or USB sticks. All without motor, without pendulum that constantly hovers back and forth over the conventional Feastplatte and data reads and writes. Hard drives do not store magnetic, SSD. Hard disks can lose their data never, as long as they are intact. SSD's also not only when the time to give up their mind, is nothing left to save. For hard drives is always the possibility that data that never disappear, read. That may be expensive, but you have the chance, even ranzukommen. This Toshiba SSD Q is my 2nd Toshiba. I use them as a clone of the original HDD. Thus, the computer is much faster. Should they die again, I take my original HDD and the computer is fully operational again. Although not currently, but all programs are still there. So to speak, a 2-fold safety. Hard disk drives have remained for me a very high Stellenwert.Ich would never leave me only one SSD. Always set up a clone on HDD.