Nowadays, SSDs are becoming more popular. The reason behind this is the new applications are becoming more resource intensive and computers are getting slow with traditional hard disks. This mostly happens to the machines with Windows operating systems. Therefore most people are upgrading their machines with SSDs to achieve a higher performance. But the price of a SSD is relatively higher (more than 2 times) than a HDD. So most people face to the problem whether the extra performance we get is worth compared to the price of SSD with HDD. Some people say that SSDs are useless as they have a limited write cycle count. What is the truth behind think this? Should you upgrade your machine with a SSD?

Many of the Microsoft windows users complain their storage devices like hard disks and flash drives show a less capacity in windows operating systems than manufacturer mentioned capacity. For example 4 GB pen drive usually have a capacity of about 3.72 GB. 320 GB hard disk has about a capacity of about 300 GB. People give different opinions as reason for this. Some says windows allocate some space for back up process. Some accuse the manufacturer. But actually the mentioned capacity is there. Reason is a matter of using different unite.