Phoenix777
Android Enthusiast
I found information and specs on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 and other tablets but nothing about whether or not thEy have A moving Parts hard drive Or a solid state Hard drive (SSD) so which is iT? Can anyone tell me?
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What type of hard drive do tablets have?
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svim
Extreme Android User
Tablets are essentially just smartphones scaled up in size, with a few changes of course. But the NAND Flash in our phones are the same. This link is for a Galaxy Tab and in step 13 there's a photo of the motherboard (front side) with the storage memory chip highlighted in red:
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung+Galaxy+Tab+Teardown/4103
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung+Galaxy+Tab+Teardown/4103
Phoenix777
Android Enthusiast
Interesting article! So NAND Flash hard drive is a type of SSD (flash drive) ?
Actually, it's more like the opposite. SSDs are all microchip storage with no moving parts. Exact same thing with flash memory, jump drives, SD cards...
SSDs, flash drives, sd cards and a phone's internal storage are all solid state storage. The difference with an SSD is mainly in the storage controller. That's why The Chief says it's the other way round: an SSD is a type of semiconductor storage device, but other semiconductor storage devices are not SSDs.
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Phoenix777
Android Enthusiast
Yes that's correct... That's what I'm saying. So I'm asking, Does my tablet have a hard drive like that? No moving parts? Like a ssd? Nand=ssd?
Phoenix777
Android Enthusiast
Ok so what does my tablet have exactly? Lol A hard Drive with moving parts or no moving parts like ssd?
The first reply answered that one. It's *exactly* like a phone, a NAND chip soldered to the board (but not technically a SSD, which has a specific meaning).
Phoenix777
Android Enthusiast
Ok so.... No moving part, correct?
Absolutely. No moving parts. No Android tablet I've ever heard of uses an actual HDD (they'd be a bad choice for a tablet: too bulky, too fragile, use too much power).
jerrspud
Well-Known Member
correct that the "solid" part. In the old days a radio would have tubes inside that had moving parts. "Solid State" electronics meant no moving parts. A hard drive is spinning like a record, but a SSD "solid state drive" has no moving parts.
codezer0
Android Expert
No tablet maker with any sanity would put a spinning hard drive in a tablet. The power consumption factor alone rules it out. Let alone physical size and speed factors.
Supposedly, some tablets can be upgraded with better storage from an SD slot externally, with a few having their boot drive be an m.2 interfaced ssd. That would be a treat for speed and capacity.