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HDD & SSD Storage Solutions for Every Device
Whether you need reliable long-term storage with an HDD or lightning-fast performance with an SSD, at Doctor Memory shopping for disk drives is a pleasure. Here you can find both personal and professional disk drives to meet the customers.
We take performance, durability, and compatibility into consideration when choosing HDDs and SSDs for you. We provide HDD & SSD storage solutions for your requirements, whether it be a home number used as a network game or business desktops attached to surveillance systems and high-capacity servers.
HDD & SSD Storage for Every Customer
What is an HDD?
An HDD (Hard Disk Drive) is an old-style storage device that uses spinning magnetic platters to store the data.
- Efficient and inexpensive storage devices, still popular today
- Suitable for extremely heavy storage requirements at the lowest possible price
- Particularly good at storing large files such as videos, backups, and databases
- Cost per GB much less expensive than an SSD
- Technology that is tried and true for decades
- Available in 2.5 and 3.5 inch formats
What is an SSD?
A Solid State Drive (SSD) is a modern storage device that uses flash memory to save data, rather than spinning magnetic renditions, as is the case with an HDD.
- Super-fast boot times and application loading using SSD technology
- Silent running without any moving parts
- Lower energy consumption for laptops as well as electronics
- Greater durability and resistance to physical impact
Choosing Between HDD and SSD
Choosing between SSD and HDD depends on your needs. Nowadays many users — even the most demanding ones — find themselves using both. For example, you could have an SSD hold your operating system and applications while using an HDD to store mass data such as video files, photographs, and archives.
- Notebook PC: Benefit from the speed and power efficiency of an SSD
- Gaming PC: Real-time load times and smoother gameplay with an custom gaming PC
- Desktop PC: An HDD for data and an SSD to take advantage of performance
- CCTV: Rely on HDD drives for large-capacity storage and long-term mission-critical surveillance applications
- NAS & Servers: HDDs for storage capacity, SSDs for fast access and caching
HDD Performance & Capacity
HDDs can provide tons of storage anywhere in the 500GB to 18TB range. Suited to users with large files or data, HDDs offer a reliable bulk storage option at correspondingly favourable prices. Though slower than SSDs, hard drives remain essential for bulk storage and documents kept over time.
SSD Performance & Capacity
SSDs range in capacity from 120GB to 8TB. Read/write speeds that are many times faster than HDDs mean SSD drives improve the performance of the system as a whole massively. Ideal for resource-intensive demands from end-users as well as businesses such as gaming, video editing and workstations on enterprise networks, an SSD will make computing much more responsive and efficient.
Economical HDD & SSD Prices
Doctor Memory take pride in offering some of the lowest prices for HDD or SSD in the UK. Whether you are upgrading a laptop, boosting a gaming PC, expanding NAS capacity or keeping your server running as it should, there’ll always be the solution to your needs at an affordable price.
Quality Control
- Every HDD and SSD product undergoes rigorous testing to ensure quality
- Compatibility with a variety of systems
- Standard industry benchmarks for reliable performance results
Upgrade today with a high-quality SSD or HDD from Doctor Memory for faster performance, better reliability and the storage capacity your system needs.
HDD and SSD FAQ's
Dr Memory is the UK's Number one memory seller on. The unparalleled good quality of our products is what makes us the best. We provide pro gamers and enthusiasts in the UK with this less expensive, sturdy storage technology for their gaming needs on their laptop and desktop machines.
HDD: HDD (Hard Disk Drive): An HDD stores data on a spinning magnetic disks, it provides the large storage capacities at lower costs. SSD ( Solid State Drive ) technology uses a NAND type of flash-memory which is quite faster, generates no heat, and require less power to operate than traditional Hard Disk Drives ( HDD ).
In general you are best off with an SSD for the gaming drive. They offer faster load times, smoother performance and quick access to game files. A lot of players will use an SSD for their OS, and some select games, alongside a larger HDD for mass-storage.
Yes. The majority of laptops can be (at least the Hdd is SSD) upgraded from an HDD to an SSD. So, you boot up the system or load an application and it practically jumps out of your SSD!
Typical life span of HDDs is 3-5 years based on usage. SSDs are typically good for 5–10 years because there are no moving parts (but don't get physically damaged like a HDD does).
SSD drives are compatible with both computers and laptops, and most of the ones released recently have holes for screws. Prior to purchase, confirm your device is compatible with the product offered in terms of both form factor and interface.
Absolutely. Most gamers and power users will combine an SSD with a larger HDD, only using the latter for bulk storage (like a sound or movie library) and as that backup.
Primitive HDD capacities spanned from 500GB to 18TB. Select depending on your requirement: 1-2TB suits the need of an average gamer or home user, higher capacity offers a good back-up or server stotage solution.
SSDs typically go from 120GB to 8TB. 500GB–1TB is fine for most general use. For gaming or professional use such as video editing you would want 2TB or larger.
Yes. HDDs operate with moving parts and spinning platters that may produce quite an audible sound. SSDs don't make any noise because there are no mechanical parts to produce music.
Yes. Also, due to the fact than SSDs use less power than HDDs they produce less heat and notebooks with SSDs typically have a longer battery life.
Yes. In a NAS or server scenario, you usually use HDDs for stuff that doesn’t require faster access on higher capacity drives and allocate flash to hold “hot” data so it can be accessed quicker than if all of the reads had to come from spinning platters.
And now for just HDDs mind – avoid shocks and keep adequately cooled. Ensure you update the firmware and maintain 20% or more free space for good SSD performance, speed and long lifespan.
Sure, they cost more per GB, but the speed and reliability you get out of them make it typically worth the extra money spent.
Yes they do, but to get the best potential performance for gaming or work purposes it's worth using high quality drives from a reputable brand such as Dr Memory.
Dr Memory is the UK's Number one Dedicated Seller of High Quality Computer, Server and Laptop Memory (RAM) and HDDs We supply memory for all major brands including Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Toshiba, Samsung Please note that the values indicated in item specifics such as number of modules or capacity cos not always be correct as we may have multiple options available The prescribed maximum RAM was added.The influence of your CPU max.
For a gaming PC, you'll want the fastest load times by getting an SSD at high speed with NVMe. Combine with a high capacity hard disk drive (HDD) for PC gaming storage, available in 3TB and 4TB options so you never have to worry about space again Pair with the Seagate firecuda gaming dock and surround your battle station with an immersive RGB experience.
Yes. One of the quickest ways to decrease boot times and increase your overall system performance is upgrading to an SSD in your laptop, or desktop PC.